familier
\fa.mi.lje\
The verdict
“familier” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,391. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,391
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est considéré comme appartenant à la famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-familier · familier · French
familier · rank #8,391 · 11 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,391
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH expliquant
Nearest frequency peer: expliquant (-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 « familier »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- envoient
envoient
91,613 corpus weight
- essentielles
essentielles
91,612 corpus weight
- expliquant
expliquant
91,611 corpus weight
- familier
familier
91,610 corpus weight
- flore
flore
91,609 corpus weight
- fragiles
fragiles
91,607 corpus weight
What this shows « familier » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | familier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fa.mi.lje\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #8,391 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « familier »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around familier (IPA \fa.mi.lje\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #8,391 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 9 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for familier, with forms such as "afmilier", "faimlier", and "famiiler". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "famille", "familles", "familiers", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is familier, spelled F-A-M-I-L-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Qui est considéré comme appartenant à la famille.
- 2Qui vit dans l’intimité de quelqu’un.
- 3Qui a rapport à l’intimité d’une personne avec une autre, en parlant des choses.
- 4Qui se comporte librement à l’égard de quelqu’un, surtout en parlant des choses.
- 5Qui est devenu facile, aisé, par la pratique, l’habitude.
- 6Qualifie les choses devenues ordinaires ou habituelles.
- 7Qualifie les choses que l’on reconnaît aisément pour les avoir vues souvent.
- 8Qui se dit dans la conversation, qui ne convient qu’à la conversation, en parlant de la langue parlée, par opposition à la langue écrite.
- 9Qui est de la famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how familier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Aucun animal familier n’est autorisé dans l’avion.
Un ami familier.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- afmilier
- faimlier
- famiiler
- famileir
- familierr
- familire
- famillier
- famliier
- fammilier
- ffamilier
- fmailier
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of familier - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "familier", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).