familias

/[faˈmiljas]/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#1,140

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

11

tracked variants

Confusables

3

similar word pairs

familias is aSpanishnoun. It means: Forma del plural de familia. Pronounced [faˈmiljas]. It ranks #1,140 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with familia and familiar.

Key facts for familias
PropertyValue
Headwordfamilias
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[faˈmiljas]
Letters8
Frequency rank#1,140
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of familias in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for familias is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [faˈmiljas]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,140 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Forma del plural de familia.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for familias, with forms such as "afmilias", "faimlias", and "famiilas". 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, "familia", "familiar", "familiares", 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 familias, spelled F-A-M-I-L-I-A-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Forma del plural de familia.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: afmilias,faimlias,famiilas,familais,familiass,familisa,famillias,famliias,fammilias,ffamilias,fmailias

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for familias

Misspelling Variants of "familias"

afmilias8faimlias8famiilas8familais8familiass9familisa8famillias9famliias8
Misspelling Variants of "familias"

Frequency rank: #1,140 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "familias"?
"familias" is spelled F-A-M-I-L-I-A-S. The IPA pronunciation is [faˈmiljas].
What does "familias" mean?
As a noun, "familias" means: Forma del plural de familia.
What words are commonly confused with "familias"?
"familias" is commonly confused with "familia", "familiar", "familiares". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "familias"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "familias" is [faˈmiljas]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "familias" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.