fil
[fiɫ]
The verdict
“fil” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #43,176) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #43,176
- frequency rank, German
- 3,474
- “F” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - mächtiges Säugetier mit Rüssel und Stoßzähnen; Elefant
Corpus desk
Index DE-fil · fil · German
fil · rank #43,176 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,176
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,474
- PHOTO-FINISH Feuerpause
Nearest frequency peer: Feuerpause (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „fil“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- festzunehmen
festzunehmen
56,828 corpus weight
- fettig
fettig
56,827 corpus weight
- Feuerpause
Feuerpause
56,826 corpus weight
- fil
fil
56,825 corpus weight
- Fischfang
Fischfang
56,823 corpus weight
- flauschig
flauschig
56,822 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „fil“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fil |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [fiɫ] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #43,176 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „fil“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for fil is neighbouring look-alikes ("fl", "FW", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [fiɫ]. Frequency #43,176 among 3,474 “F” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No generated misspelling entries exist for fil in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "fl", "FW", "fm", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is fil, spelled F-I-L.
Definition
- 1mächtiges Säugetier mit Rüssel und Stoßzähnen; Elefant
- 2Schachfigur, die man nur diagonal bewegen darf; Läufer
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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