Fillon
"fillon" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Fillon” is uncommon English (frequency #68,216 among 2,507 “F” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,216
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname from French.
Corpus desk
Index EN-fillon · Fillon · English
Fillon · rank #68,216 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,216
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH fiercer
Nearest frequency peer: fiercer (-1 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 “Fillon”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- fCT
fCT
31,789 corpus weight
- fiercer
fiercer
31,786 corpus weight
- Fillon
Fillon
31,785 corpus weight
- finis
finis
31,784 corpus weight
- finna
finna
31,783 corpus weight
- finned
finned
31,782 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Fillon” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Fillon |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #68,216 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Fillon” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Fillon is uncommon English at frequency #68,216 among 2,507 “F” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A surname from French.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Fillon in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From French Fillon. The correct English form is Fillon, spelled F-I-L-L-O-N.
Definition
- 1A surname from French.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Fillon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
François Fillon
Etymology
From French Fillon.
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).