Which to use
“familier” and “familiers” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #8,391
- “familier” frequency rank
- #19,286
- “familiers” frequency rank
- 27677
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | familier | familiers |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qui est considéré comme appartenant à la famille. | Masculin pluriel de familier. |
Same sound, different letters: familier vs familiers
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. familier runs 8 letters (CVCVCVVC) against familiers's 9 (CVCVCVVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Homophone desk: familier vs familiers
This is the hard kind. familier and familiers are pronounced identically (\fa.mi.lje\) and both work as anadjective. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “familier” sits inside “familiers”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 27677, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
familier is recorded at frequency rank #8,391, classified as anadj, pronounced \fa.mi.lje\. familiers is at rank #19,286, tagged as anadj, pronounced \fa.mi.lje\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 27677, this pair ranks #327,528 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of familier vs familiers
Shared letters: aefilmr. Private to "familier": -. Private to "familiers": s.
"familier" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCVVC · "familiers" · 9 letters · shape CVCVCVVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "familier" and "familiers" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "familier" or "familiers" show up more?
Useful next steps
You've separated the homophone pair "familier" / "familiers". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "familier" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "familiers" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #327,528 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "familier" and "familiers" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "familiers vs fusiliers". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #327,528 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.