familiarité
French, noun/fa.mi.lja.ʁi.te/
familiarité is spelled F-A-M-I-L-I-A-R-I-T-É (11 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 37,709th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Familiarité is a French feminine noun meaning “familiarity” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Manière de vivre dans l’intimité de quelqu’un”.
What does familiarité mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininefamiliarity
- 2
feminineinformality, simplicity
Il y a excès de familiarité dans son style.
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Manière de vivre dans l’intimité de quelqu’un. 2. Manière de se comporter trop librement à l’égard d’une personne. 3. Simplicité, en parlant des ouvrages de l’esprit.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of familiarité
- familiarités plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce familiarité?
- /fa.mi.lja.ʁi.te/
- \fa.mi.lja.ʁi.te\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to familiarité
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is familiarité in French?
familiarité appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).