famille
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#244
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
17
similar word pairs
famille is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ensemble formé par les parents et leurs enfants. Pronounced \fa.mij\. It ranks #244 in French word frequency. Often confused with fille and famine.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | famille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fa.mij\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #244 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for famille is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fa.mij\. Corpus data places it at rank #244 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for famille, with forms such as "afmille", "faimlle", and "famile". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 17 confusable-pair relationships, "fille", "famine", "family", 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 famille, spelled F-A-M-I-L-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ensemble formé par les parents et leurs enfants.
- 2Ensemble formé par les parents, les enfants et les serviteurs d’une maisonnée.
- 3Ensemble des personnes ayant des liens de parenté par le sang ou par alliance.
- 4Suite des individus nés d’une même souche.
- 5Toutes les personnes qui vivent sous la protection d’un chef.
- 6Groupe, catégorie de choses ou d’êtres partageant des caractères communs.
- 7Collection indexée d’élément(s) d’un ensemble E. Rigoureusement, application d’un ensemble d’indices I dans E, notée formellement (x_i)_(i∈I).
- 8Taxon qui regroupe les genres qui présentent le plus de similitudes entre eux.
- 9Ensemble homogène de polices apparentées, de style identique, ne différant que par la largeur, la graisse ou le caractère romain ou italique.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: afmille,faimlle,famile,familel,famlile,fammille,ffamille,fmaille
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for famille
Misspelling Variants of "famille"
Frequency rank: #244 in French
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Nearby French words
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