exfiltrer
\ɛks.fil.tʁe\
The verdict
“exfiltrer” is uncommon French (frequency #73,148 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,148
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Transférer secrètement une personne d’un pays ou un lieu à un autre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-exfiltrer · exfiltrer · French
exfiltrer · rank #73,148 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,148
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH excentrée
Nearest frequency peer: excentrée (-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 « exfiltrer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ethos
ethos
26,857 corpus weight
- excentrée
excentrée
26,854 corpus weight
- exfiltrer
exfiltrer
26,853 corpus weight
- exiguïté
exiguïté
26,852 corpus weight
- existentiels
existentiels
26,851 corpus weight
- expertiser
expertiser
26,850 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « exfiltrer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | exfiltrer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛks.fil.tʁe\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #73,148 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « exfiltrer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
exfiltrer is uncommon French at frequency #73,148 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɛks.fil.tʁe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for exfiltrer in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is exfiltrer, spelled E-X-F-I-L-T-R-E-R.
Definition
- 1Transférer secrètement une personne d’un pays ou un lieu à un autre.
- 2Faire sortir (une ou des personnes menacées).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how exfiltrer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Son [Thabo Mbeki] parcours politique commence à l’âge de 14 ans, quand il adhère à la Ligue des jeunes de l’ANC avant d’être exfiltré du pays.
Le criminel nazi Eichmann fut exfiltré d'Argentine pour être jugé et condamné en Israel.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
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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