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logfile

noun

logfile is spelled L-O-G-F-I-L-E: 7 letters. It appears about once in every 56 million words in written English, the 234,209th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, logfile means “A file that serves as a log” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of logfile is logfiles.

How many letters and syllables are in logfile?

Letters7: L-O-G-F-I-L-E
In writingabout once in every 56 million words; the 234,209th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is logfile?

Logfile appears about once in every 56 million words in written English, the 234,209th 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).

What rhymes with logfile?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as logfile.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: lifelog.

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of logfile

  • logfiles plural

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

What does logfile mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A file that serves as a log.

    Aside from the functional DBMS components described above, the logfile is a vital element in transaction management and recovery.

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

Logfile in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense Translations:

LanguageWords
GermanLogfile

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.

Where does logfile come from?

From log + file.

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

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