familles
\fa.mij\
The verdict
“familles” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,289. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,289
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-familles · familles · French
familles · rank #1,289 · 10 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,289
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH côte
Nearest frequency peer: côte (-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 « familles »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- choisi
choisi
98,715 corpus weight
- communicati…
communication
98,714 corpus weight
- côte
côte
98,713 corpus weight
- familles
familles
98,712 corpus weight
- fasse
fasse
98,711 corpus weight
- finir
finir
98,710 corpus weight
What this shows « familles » 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 | familles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fa.mij\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #1,289 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « familles »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around familles (IPA \fa.mij\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,289 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de famille.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for familles, with forms such as "afmilles", "faimlles", and "familels". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "filles", "famines", "feuilles", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is familles, spelled F-A-M-I-L-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how familles appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Samedi, dans un haut lieu de la mémoire harki, un ancien camp situé près de Perpignan, où furent regroupés, après la guerre d’Algérie, des harkis et leurs familles, le président devait déposer une gerbe, en compagnie notamment du ministre de la défense Gérard Longuet et de la secrétaire d’État à la jeunesse Jeanette Bougrab, elle-même fille de harkis.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- afmilles
- faimlles
- familels
- familes
- familless
- famillse
- famliles
- fammilles
- ffamilles
- fmailles
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of familles - 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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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