familier
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#8,391
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
8
similar word pairs
familier is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui est considéré comme appartenant à la famille. Pronounced \fa.mi.lje\. It ranks #8,391 in French word frequency. Often confused with famille and familles.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | familier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \fa.mi.lje\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #8,391 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for familier is 8 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fa.mi.lje\. Corpus data places it at rank #8,391 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for familier, with forms such as "afmilier", "faimlier", and "famiiler". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "famille", "familles", "familiers", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is familier, spelled F-A-M-I-L-I-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: afmilier,faimlier,famiiler,famileir,familierr,familire,famillier,famliier,fammilier,ffamilier,fmailier
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for familier
Misspelling Variants of "familier"
Frequency rank: #8,391 in French
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