familiarité

\fa.mi.lja.ʁi.te\

/\fa.mi.lja.ʁi.te\/ noun

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The verdict

“familiarité” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #37,806. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#37,806
frequency rank, French
3,276
“F” headwords
16
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Manière de vivre dans l’intimité de quelqu’un.

Corpus desk

Index FR-familiarite · familiarité · French

familiarité · rank #37,806 · 16 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-MID #37,806
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-6 6 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 16 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,276
  • PHOTO-FINISH excédant

Nearest frequency peer: excédant (-2 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 « familiarité »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « familiarité » 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).

familiarité vs familiariser
75% similar

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

Key facts for familiarité
PropertyValue
Headwordfamiliarité
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\fa.mi.lja.ʁi.te\
Letters11
Frequency rank#37,806
Misspellings tracked16
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « familiarité »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).familiaritése 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 « excédant » (#37,804), « Farc » (#37,808), « exagérées » (#37,803). Parmi 3,276 lemmes en « F », « familiarité » est au #37,806. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 16 spelling variants around familiarité (IPA \fa.mi.lja.ʁi.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #37,806 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for familiarité, with forms such as "afmiliarité", "faimliarité", and "famiilarité". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "familiariser", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

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 familiarité, spelled F-A-M-I-L-I-A-R-I-T-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    Manière de vivre dans l’intimité de quelqu’un.
  2. 2
    Manière de se comporter trop librement à l’égard d’une personne.
  3. 3
    Simplicité, en parlant des ouvrages de l’esprit.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Nous parlions plus haut de la familiarité patriarcale qui rapproche nécessairement les jeunes gens d'une même tribu.
  2. La plus aimable familiarité semblait régner entre tout ce monde-là, car le dîner commença par une plaisanterie à coups de poing à laquelle nous ne comprîmes rien.

This word in other languages

familiarity(English)familiaridad(Español)Vertrautheit(Deutsch)familiaridade(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • afmiliarité
  • faimliarité
  • famiilarité
  • familairité
  • familiairté
  • familiarite
  • familiaritté
  • familiariét
  • familiarrité
  • familiartié
  • familiraité
  • familliarité
  • famliiarité
  • fammiliarité
  • ffamiliarité
  • fmailiarité

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of familiarité - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

afmiliarité2faimliarité2famiilarité2familairité2familiairté2familiarite1familiaritté1familiariét2
Edit distance from "familiarité"

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 "familiarité"?
"familiarité" is spelled F-A-M-I-L-I-A-R-I-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \fa.mi.lja.ʁi.te\.
What does "familiarité" mean?
As a noun, "familiarité" means: Manière de vivre dans l’intimité de quelqu’un.
What words are commonly confused with "familiarité"?
"familiarité" is commonly confused with "familiariser". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "familiarité"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "familiarité" is \fa.mi.lja.ʁi.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "familiarité" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

dépaysement#37,780déneigement#37,779illettrisme#37,863convertible#37,747

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).

déménagent16 variantsGennevilliers16 variantsimmortaliser16 variantsconsolidés16 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list