familia

\fa.ˈmi.lja\

/\fa.ˈmi.lja\/ noun

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The verdict

“familia” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #41,286. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#41,286
frequency rank, French
3,276
“F” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
6
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Famille.

Corpus desk

Index FR-familia · familia · French

familia · rank #41,286 · 9 variants · 6 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #41,286
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,276
  • PHOTO-FINISH fabuleuses

Nearest frequency peer: fabuleuses (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « familia »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « familia » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

familia vs family
71% similar
familia vs famille
71% similar
familia vs familial
88% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for familia
PropertyValue
Headwordfamilia
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\fa.ˈmi.lja\
Letters7
Frequency rank#41,286
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « familia »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).familiase place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « fabuleuses » (#41,285), « fanion » (#41,287), « farcir » (#41,288). Parmi 3,276 lemmes en « F », « familia » est au #41,286. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around familia (IPA \fa.ˈmi.lja\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #41,286 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Famille.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for familia, with forms such as "afmilia", "faimlia", and "famiila". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "family", "famille", "familial", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is familia, spelled F-A-M-I-L-I-A.

Definition

  1. 1
    Famille.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how familia appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. En el comedor del hotel hay una familia muy interesante. El padre es un hombre alto, delgado, vestido de negro, con cuello duro. Tiene la cabeza calva en el centro y dos tufos de pelo gris a derecha e izquierda.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • afmilia
  • faimlia
  • famiila
  • familai
  • famillia
  • famliia
  • fammilia
  • ffamilia
  • fmailia

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of familia - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

afmilia2faimlia2famiila2familai2famillia1famliia2fammilia1ffamilia1
Edit distance from "familia"

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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "familia"?
"familia" is spelled F-A-M-I-L-I-A. The IPA pronunciation is \fa.ˈmi.lja\.
What does "familia" mean?
As a noun, "familia" means: Famille.
What words are commonly confused with "familia"?
"familia" is commonly confused with "family", "famille", "familial". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "familia"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "familia" is \fa.ˈmi.lja\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "familia" come from?
"familia" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "familia", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

filante#41,290Flavien#41,291estimes#41,280frivole#41,299

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

farcir9 variantsfeuillus9 variantsessayera9 variantsgifles9 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list