filia
Spanish, noun
filia is spelled F-I-L-I-A (5 letters) and appears about once in every 8 million words in written Spanish, the 106,207th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Filia is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “philia” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a third-person singular present indicative of filiar. With an accent, filiá is a different word: “second-person singular voseo imperative of filiar”.
What does filia mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininephilia
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
suffix
- 1
feminine-philia
verb
- 1
second-person singular voseo imperative of filiar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
suffix: 1. Forma sustantivos con el significado de "afición por, inclinación hacia" lo que significa la raíz o base..
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 filia
- filias plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to filia
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is filia in Spanish?
filia appears about once in every 8 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).