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filin

Spanish, noun/ˈfilin/

filin is spelled F-I-L-I-N (5 letters) and appears about once in every 23 million words in written Spanish, the 174,457th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Filin is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “filin” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “(orden Siluriformes) Cualquiera de las especies de peces de la familia Ariidos que se encuentran en América…”.

What does filin mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinefilin

Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Spanish dictionaries define it

noun: 1. (orden Siluriformes) Cualquiera de las especies de peces de la familia Ariidos que se encuentran en América Central pertenecientes a los géneros taxonómicos Arius, Bagre y Galeichthus.

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 filin

  • filines plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce filin?

  • /ˈfilin/
  • [ˈfi.lĩn]
  • [fiˈlĩn]

Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to filin

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is filin in Spanish?

filin appears about once in every 23 million words in written Spanish.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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