How Many Syllables Are in Familiar

The word Familiar has three syllables: fa-mil-iar.
Syllable division helps in understanding the word's structure, improving both pronunciation and spelling.
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Definition of Familiar

commonly known or recognized

How should Familiar divide into syllables

There are three syllables in the word 'familiar.' The first syllable 'fa' has one vowel 'a' and one consonant 'f.' The second syllable 'mil' has one vowel 'i' and two consonants 'm' and 'l.' The last syllable 'iar' has two vowels 'i' and 'a' and one consonant 'r.'

Part of Speech - Familiar

That's a familiar face. I think I've seen him before.

Sentences with Familiar

• The park is familiar to me because I go there often.
• The song is very familiar, I've heard it a lot before.
• The smell of cookies baking is familiar to many people.
• The teacher's handwriting is familiar to the students.
• The town looks familiar, but I can't remember if I've been there before.
• The sound of the waves crashing is familiar to anyone who has been to the beach.
• The book is familiar to me, I've read it before.
• The taste of grandma's cooking is familiar to everyone in the family.
• The movie was familiar to me because I had seen it before.
• The face in the photograph is familiar to me, but I can't remember who it is.

Quotes with Familiar

• Familiar acts are beautiful through love. – Percy Bysshe Shelley
• Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. – Alfred North Whitehead
• The familiar becomes the instrument for expressing the inexpressible. – Eugene Ionesco
• The language of the moment or, as it were, the language of the order in which we live, is the image. – Roland Barthes
• The most familiar things can become so suddenly unfamiliar, it happens in a flash. – Robin Wall Kimmerer
• There is nothing more mysterious than the ordinary. – G.K. Chesterton
• Familiarity breeds contempt – Aesop
• The mere familiarity of an idea does not make it true. – G.K. Chesterton
• Familiar acts are beautiful through love. – Percy Bysshe Shelley
• The familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. – Alfred North Whitehead
• I find my life is a lot easier the lower I keep my expectations. – Bill Watterson
• All strange and terrible events are welcome, but comforts we despise. – Cleopatra
• The commonplace is the thing that is most difficult to see and to appreciate. – Frank Lloyd Wright
• Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. – Alfred North Whitehead
• The familiar path is not always the safest. – Sarah J. Maas
• The familiar life horizon has been outgrown; the old concepts, ideals and emotional patterns no longer fit; the time for the passing of a threshold is at hand. – Joseph Campbell
• The very familiarity of blessings sometimes makes us overlook them. – Neil A. Maxwell
• To be a good writer, you not only have to write a great deal but you have to care. – Anne Lamott
• The familiar life horizon has been outgrown; the old concepts, ideals and emotional patterns no longer fit. – Joseph Campbell
• We are so used to seeing the world in a certain way that we have ceased to see it at all. – Henri Nouwen

Number of characters in Familiar

8 ( f, a, m, i, l, i, a, r )

Unique letters in Familiar

6 ( f, a, m, i, l, r )

Familiar Backwards

railimaf

How to Pronounce Familiar

IPA (International): fʌˈmɪljɜ:

ARA (American): fʌˈmɪljɝ

EPA (English): fʌˈmɪljɜ:

FAH-MIH-LYER