familiar
\familiˈaɾ\
The verdict
“familiar” is uncommon French (frequency #99,083 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,083
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Familial.
Corpus desk
Index FR-familiar · familiar · French
familiar · rank #99,083 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,083
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH Fallières
Nearest frequency peer: Fallières (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « familiar »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fader
fader
921 corpus weight
- Fallières
Fallières
919 corpus weight
- familiar
familiar
918 corpus weight
- Fass
Fass
917 corpus weight
- Fastfood
Fastfood
916 corpus weight
- fave
fave
915 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « familiar » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | familiar |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \familiˈaɾ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #99,083 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « familiar » en français
Rare enough to double-check
familiar is uncommon French at frequency #99,083 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \familiˈaɾ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for familiar, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is familiar, spelled F-A-M-I-L-I-A-R.
Definition
- 1Familial.
- 2Familier.
Synonyms
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.
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