filar
/ˈfaɪlə(ɹ)/adjective
filar is an adjective meaning “Having a thread across the field of view” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-I-L-A-R, and it appears about once in every 65 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does filar mean?
adjective
- 1
Having a thread across the field of view.
a filar microscope
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce filar?
- /ˈfaɪlə(ɹ)/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of filar
- more filar comparative
- most filar superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is filar?
Filar appears about once in every 65 million words in written English, the 252,559th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does filar come from?
From Latin filum (“a thread”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).