nom de famille

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for nom de famille is 14 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \nɔ̃ də fa.mij\. 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: "Nom qu’une personne partage avec les autres membres de sa famille, hérité de ses parents, distinct de son ou ses noms personnels (prénoms ou postnoms), et qui se transmet de génération en génération.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for nom de famille in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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.

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 nom de famille, spelled N-O-M- -D-E- -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.