fila
Spanish, noun
fila is spelled F-I-L-A (4 letters) and appears 20 times per million words in written Spanish, the 3,991st most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fila is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “line, row, rank, file” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a third-person singular present indicative of filar. With an accent, filá is a different word: “second-person singular voseo imperative of filar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Conjunto de números o símbolos algebraicos colocados en horizontal dentro de una matriz matemática”.
What does fila mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineline, row, rank, file
- 2
femininequeue (British), line (US)
- 3
femininerank
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
suffix
- 1
femininefemale equivalent of -filo
suffix
- 1
femininefeminine singular of -filo
verb
- 1
second-person singular voseo imperative of filar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Conjunto de números o símbolos algebraicos colocados en horizontal dentro de una matriz matemática.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of fila
- filas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to fila
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is fila in Spanish?
fila appears 20 times per million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).