filledvsFillersWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: filled is a adjective, Fillers is a name, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“filled” is an adjective and “Fillers” is a name - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#2,041
“filled” frequency rank
#26,790
“Fillers” frequency rank
28831
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature filled Fillers
Definition That is now full. A surname.

Letter map: filled vs Fillers

Shared letters muted; letters that set filled and Fillers apart highlighted. Shared run: 5. filled runs 6 letters (CVCCVC) against Fillers's 7 (CVCCVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

6 ch
filled
7 ch
Fillers

Grammar separator: filled vs Fillers

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: filled is anadjective and Fillersaname. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 28831, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

filled is recorded at frequency rank #2,041, classified as anadj, pronounced /fɪld/. Fillers is at rank #26,790, tagged as aname.

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 28831, this pair ranks #367,959 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of filled vs Fillers

Shared letters: efil. Private to "filled": d. Private to "Fillers": rs.

"filled" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC  ·  "Fillers" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • filled ← ffilled · fileld · fillde · filledd · fliled · iflled
  • Fillers ← ffillers · filelrs · filers · fillerrs · fillerss · fillesr · fillres · flilers

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "filled" for "Fillers" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "filled" is an adjective and "Fillers" a name, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary English text, does "filled" or "Fillers" show up more?
"filled" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,041 in our English list, against #26,790 for "Fillers". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

Pair "filled" vs "Fillers" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "filled" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "Fillers" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #367,959 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "filled" and "Fillers" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "feller vs Fillers". 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 #367,959 of 530,003 scored English pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list