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filemaker

noun

filemaker is a noun meaning “A manufacturer of files (rasping tools)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-I-L-E-M-A-K-E-R, and it appears about once in every 15 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of filemaker is filemakers.

What does filemaker mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A manufacturer of files (rasping tools).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of filemaker

  • filemakers plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is filemaker?

Filemaker appears about once in every 15 million words in written English, the 115,751st 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 filemaker come from?

From file + maker.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).