réunion de famille

/\ʁe.y.njɔ̃ də fa.mij\/ noun

The verdict

“réunion de famille” 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

Dominant Wiktionary sense: Moment peu fréquent ou se retrouvent des personnes ayant un ou plusieurs ancêtres en commun, pour discuter et se réunir.

Key facts for réunion de famille
PropertyValue
Headwordréunion de famille
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʁe.y.njɔ̃ də fa.mij\
Letters18
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “réunion de famille” sits in French frequency

réunion de famille falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words — the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for réunion de famille is 18 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁe.y.njɔ̃ 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: "Moment peu fréquent ou se retrouvent des personnes ayant un ou plusieurs ancêtres en commun, pour discuter et se réunir.".

No misspelling variants are generated for réunion de famille in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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 réunion de famille, spelled R-É-U-N-I-O-N- -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.

Definition

  1. 1
    Moment peu fréquent ou se retrouvent des personnes ayant un ou plusieurs ancêtres en commun, pour discuter et se réunir.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "réunion de famille"?
"réunion de famille" is spelled R-É-U-N-I-O-N- -D-E- -F-A-M-I-L-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁe.y.njɔ̃ də fa.mij\.
What does "réunion de famille" mean?
As a noun, "réunion de famille" means: Moment peu fréquent ou se retrouvent des personnes ayant un ou plusieurs ancêtres en commun, pour discuter et se réunir.
How do you pronounce "réunion de famille"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "réunion de famille" is \ʁe.y.njɔ̃ də fa.mij\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "réunion de famille" come from?
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Using “réunion de famille”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is R-É-U-N-I-O-N- -D-E- -F-A-M-I-L-L-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \ʁe.y.njɔ̃ 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.