families
/ˈfæm.ə.liz/
The verdict
“families” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #74,526 among 2,333 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,526
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,333
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forma del plural de family.
Corpus desk
Index ES-families · families · Spanish
families · rank #74,526 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,526
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,333
- PHOTO-FINISH facultados
Nearest frequency peer: facultados (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “families”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- Fabia
Fabia
25,477 corpus weight
- facultados
facultados
25,476 corpus weight
- families
families
25,475 corpus weight
- faringitis
faringitis
25,474 corpus weight
- farsas
farsas
25,473 corpus weight
- fecundado
fecundado
25,472 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “families” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | families |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈfæm.ə.liz/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #74,526 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “families” en español
Rare enough to double-check
families is uncommon Spanish at frequency #74,526 among 2,333 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈfæm.ə.liz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Forma del plural de family.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for families, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is families, spelled F-A-M-I-L-I-E-S.
Definition
- 1Forma del plural de family.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).