père de famille
\pɛʁ də fa.mij\
The verdict
“père de famille” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Homme qui a des enfants.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | père de famille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɛʁ də fa.mij\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “père de famille” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
père de famille is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɛʁ də fa.mij\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Homme qui a des enfants.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for père de famille, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is père de famille, spelled P-È-R-E- -D-E- -F-A-M-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Homme qui a des enfants.
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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 “père de famille”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-È-R-E- -D-E- -F-A-M-I-L-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \pɛʁ də fa.mij\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.