família
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#224
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
família is aPortuguesenoun. It means: conjunto das pessoas relacionadas, por criação ou geneticamente, a alguém, linhagem, e.g: pai, mãe, filhos, avôs etc. Pronounced /fɐ.ˈmi.ljɐ/. It ranks #224 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with family and familiar.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | família |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /fɐ.ˈmi.ljɐ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #224 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for família is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /fɐ.ˈmi.ljɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #224 in overall Portuguese word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for família, with forms such as "afmília", "famlíia", and "fammília". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "family", "familiar", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 Portuguese form is família, spelled F-A-M-Í-L-I-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1conjunto das pessoas relacionadas, por criação ou geneticamente, a alguém, linhagem, e.g: pai, mãe, filhos, avôs etc.
- 2pessoas que vivem numa mesma habitação
- 3conjunto de ítens de mesma natureza
- 4quinto nível de especificação da espécie de um ser vivo, mais específico que ordem e menos específico que gênero
- 5conjunto dos elementos que pertencem à mesma coluna da tabela periódica
- 6família só inclui filhos; exclui esposa, marido, parentes etc.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: afmília,famlíia,fammília,famíila,famílai,famíllia,faímlia,ffamília,fmaília
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for família
Misspelling Variants of "família"
Frequency rank: #224 in Portuguese
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "família"?
What does "família" mean?
What words are commonly confused with "família"?
How do you pronounce "família"?
What language does "família" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Nearby Portuguese words
Other entries that begin with the letter F in our Portuguese index: