familia
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#238
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
familia is aSpanishnoun. It means: Conjunto de personas, unidas por descendencia, matrimonio u otras relaciones —incluyendo, según las culturas, la adopción y aún la propiedad— que conforman una unidad doméstica, compartiendo reside... Pronounced [faˈmilja]. It ranks #238 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with family and familias.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | familia |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [faˈmilja] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #238 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for familia is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [faˈmilja]. Corpus data places it at rank #238 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for familia, with forms such as "afmilia", "faimlia", and "famiila". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "family", "familias", "familiar", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is familia, spelled F-A-M-I-L-I-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Conjunto de personas, unidas por descendencia, matrimonio u otras relaciones —incluyendo, según las culturas, la adopción y aún la propiedad— que conforman una unidad doméstica, compartiendo residencia y cooperando económicamente
- 2Conjunto de personas, más amplio que el anterior, que se identifica con un linaje común por descendencia, adopción o adscripción
- 3En general, conjunto de elementos que tienen rasgos comunes, en especial si mantienen relaciones de derivación
- 4Rango taxonómico entre el orden y el género
- 5Columna de la tabla periódica, que se corresponde grosso modo a una serie química
- 6Unidad filogenética que nuclea las lenguas ininteligibles entre sí que derivan de un ancestro común
- 7Colonia de abejas.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: afmilia,faimlia,famiila,familai,famillia,famliia,fammilia,ffamilia,fmailia
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for familia
Misspelling Variants of "familia"
Frequency rank: #238 in Spanish
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