exfiltration
\ɛks.fil.tʁa.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“exfiltration” is uncommon French (frequency #64,434 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,434
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Transfert secret d'une personne d'un pays à un autre, ou d'un endroit à un autre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-exfiltration · exfiltration · French
exfiltration · rank #64,434 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,434
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH exempter
Nearest frequency peer: exempter (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « exfiltration »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- exaspérée
exaspérée
35,570 corpus weight
- exempter
exempter
35,568 corpus weight
- exfiltration
exfiltration
35,567 corpus weight
- expansions
expansions
35,566 corpus weight
- expliquerais
expliquerais
35,565 corpus weight
- exprimons
exprimons
35,564 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « exfiltration » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | exfiltration |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛks.fil.tʁa.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #64,434 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « exfiltration » en français
Rare enough to double-check
exfiltration is uncommon French at frequency #64,434 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛks.fil.tʁa.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Transfert secret d'une personne d'un pays à un autre, ou d'un endroit à un autre.".
exfiltration doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is exfiltration, spelled E-X-F-I-L-T-R-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Transfert secret d'une personne d'un pays à un autre, ou d'un endroit à un autre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how exfiltration appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des certificats médicaux pour justifier les désertions d'officiels, et les exfiltrations d'étudiants vers les rangs rebelles.
Lors d’entretiens menés par Anthony Samrani, rédacteur en chef de L’Orient-Le Jour, l’ex-n° 1 de Renault-Nissan a dévoilé « [son] ressenti dans la boîte », des « incidents particuliers » lors du trajet, comme lorsque la mise à jour du téléphone d’un membre de son équipe d’exfiltration a fait craindre l’échec de la mission.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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