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filigreed

adjective, verb

filigreed is an adjective meaning “Having filigree ornamentation” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-I-L-I-G-R-E-E-D, and it appears about once in every 50 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does filigreed mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    Having filigree ornamentation.

verb

  1. 1

    simple past and past participle of filigree (a form of filigree)

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

Forms of filigreed

  • more filigreed comparative
  • most filigreed superlative

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

How common is filigreed?

Filigreed appears about once in every 50 million words in written English, the 220,118th 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).

Filigreed in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense Having filigree ornamentation:

LanguageWords
Germanfiligran

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.