vie de famille

/\vi də fa.mij\/ noun

The verdict

“vie 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
14
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: Ensemble des activités faites avec les membres de sa famille ; peut être opposé à la vie professionnelle.

Key facts for vie de famille
PropertyValue
Headwordvie de famille
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\vi də fa.mij\
Letters14
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “vie de famille” sits in French frequency

vie 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 vie de famille is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \vi 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: "Ensemble des activités faites avec les membres de sa famille ; peut être opposé à la vie professionnelle.".

No misspelling variants are generated for vie 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 vie de famille, spelled V-I-E- -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
    Ensemble des activités faites avec les membres de sa famille ; peut être opposé à la vie professionnelle.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "vie de famille"?
"vie de famille" is spelled V-I-E- -D-E- -F-A-M-I-L-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \vi də fa.mij\.
What does "vie de famille" mean?
As a noun, "vie de famille" means: Ensemble des activités faites avec les membres de sa famille ; peut être opposé à la vie professionnelle.
How do you pronounce "vie de famille"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "vie de famille" is \vi də fa.mij\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "vie de famille" come from?
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Using “vie de famille”

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

  • The one correct French spelling is V-I-E- -D-E- -F-A-M-I-L-L-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \vi 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.