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fileserver

noun

fileserver is a noun meaning “A server used to share files with other computers” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-I-L-E-S-E-R-V-E-R, and it appears about once in every 91 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fileserver is fileservers.

What does fileserver mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A server used to share files with other computers.

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

Forms of fileserver

  • fileservers plural
  • file server

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

How common is fileserver?

Fileserver appears about once in every 91 million words in written English, the 305,310th 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 fileserver come from?

From file + server.

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