famille nucléaire
\fa.mij ny.kle.ɛʁ\
The verdict
“famille nucléaire” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Famille constituée de deux parents (traditionnellement un père et une mère) et de leurs enfants.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | famille nucléaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fa.mij ny.kle.ɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “famille nucléaire” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for famille nucléaire is 17 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fa.mij ny.kle.ɛʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Famille constituée de deux parents (traditionnellement un père et une mère) et de leurs enfants.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for famille nucléaire in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is famille nucléaire, spelled F-A-M-I-L-L-E- -N-U-C-L-É-A-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Famille constituée de deux parents (traditionnellement un père et une mère) et de leurs enfants.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “famille nucléaire”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is F-A-M-I-L-L-E- -N-U-C-L-É-A-I-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.