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Filofax

noun

Filofax is a noun meaning “A personal organizer comprising a calendar, address book, etc. in a compact wallet” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-I-L-O-F-A-X and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 25 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of Filofax is Filofaxes.

What does Filofax mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A personal organizer comprising a calendar, address book, etc. in a compact wallet.

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

How do you pronounce Filofax?

    Filofax has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

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

    Forms of Filofax

    • Filofaxes plural

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

    How common is Filofax?

    Filofax appears about once in every 25 million words in written English, the 150,355th 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 Filofax come from?

    A brand name, from file of facts.

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