famille recomposée
\fa.mij ʁə.kɔ̃.po.ze\
The verdict
“famille recomposée” 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
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Famille constituée à la suite d’une séparation, d’un divorce ou d’un veuvage, lorsqu’un nouveau couple se forme et qu’il élève au moins un enfant né d’une union antérieure de l’un des conjoints.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | famille recomposée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fa.mij ʁə.kɔ̃.po.ze\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “famille recomposée” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for famille recomposée is 18 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fa.mij ʁə.kɔ̃.po.ze\. 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 à la suite d’une séparation, d’un divorce ou d’un veuvage, lorsqu’un nouveau couple se forme et qu’il élève au moins un enfant né d’une union antérieure de l’un des conjoints.".
No misspelling variants are generated for famille recomposée in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. 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's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is famille recomposée, spelled F-A-M-I-L-L-E- -R-E-C-O-M-P-O-S-É-E.
Definition
- 1Famille constituée à la suite d’une séparation, d’un divorce ou d’un veuvage, lorsqu’un nouveau couple se forme et qu’il élève au moins un enfant né d’une union antérieure de l’un des conjoints.
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 recomposée”
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- -R-E-C-O-M-P-O-S-É-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.