filleted
"filleted" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“filleted” is uncommon English (frequency #97,025 among 2,507 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,025
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gutted; very disappointed or let down.
Corpus desk
Index EN-filleted · filleted · English
filleted · rank #97,025 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,025
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH fettle
Nearest frequency peer: fettle (-2 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “filleted”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- feints
feints
2,980 corpus weight
- fettle
fettle
2,978 corpus weight
- filleted
filleted
2,976 corpus weight
- fishkill
fishkill
2,973 corpus weight
- fitfully
fitfully
2,972 corpus weight
- Fixit
Fixit
2,971 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “filleted” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | filleted |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #97,025 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “filleted” in English
Rare enough to double-check
filleted is uncommon English at frequency #97,025 among 2,507 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Gutted; very disappointed or let down.".
filleted has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is filleted, spelled F-I-L-L-E-T-E-D.
Definition
- 1Gutted; very disappointed or let down.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how filleted appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I was filleted to be honest. It had taken its toll on me ... I'd probably had enough myself by that time in terms of being manager.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).