familières
\fa.mi.ljɛʁ\
The verdict
“familières” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #38,290. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,290
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de familier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-familieres · familières · French
familières · rank #38,290 · 15 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,290
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fallacieux
Nearest frequency peer: fallacieux (-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 « familières »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- faber
faber
61,714 corpus weight
- facts
facts
61,713 corpus weight
- fallacieux
fallacieux
61,712 corpus weight
- familières
familières
61,711 corpus weight
- Fatah
Fatah
61,710 corpus weight
- Ferrero
Ferrero
61,708 corpus weight
What this shows « familières » 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 | familières |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fa.mi.ljɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #38,290 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « familières »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around familières (IPA \fa.mi.ljɛʁ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #38,290 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin pluriel de familier.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for familières, with forms such as "afmilières", "faimlières", and "famiilères". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "filières", "familiers", "familier", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is familières, spelled F-A-M-I-L-I-È-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de familier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how familières appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au fur et à mesure que Bartlebooth se familiarisait avec les petits morceaux de bois, il se mettait à les percevoir selon un axe privilégié, comme si ces pièces se polarisaient, se vectorisaient, se figeaient dans un mode de perception qui les assimilait, avec une irrésistible séduction, à des images, des formes, des silhouettes familières : un chapeau, u…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- afmilières
- faimlières
- famiilères
- familieres
- familirèes
- familièers
- familièress
- familièrres
- familièrse
- famillières
- familèires
- famliières
- fammilières
- ffamilières
- fmailières
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of familières - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
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Same letter count
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Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).