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filepath

noun

filepath is a noun meaning “The location of a file in a directory structure. Also known as the path of a file. A path can be absolute or relative” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-I-L-E-P-A-T-H, and it appears about once in every 58 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of filepath is filepaths.

What does filepath mean?

noun

  1. 1

    The location of a file in a directory structure. Also known as the path of a file. A path can be absolute or relative.

    Holonyms: filespec, pathname

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

Forms of filepath

  • filepaths plural

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

How common is filepath?

Filepath appears about once in every 58 million words in written English, the 237,177th 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 filepath come from?

From file + path.

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