fiel

\fjɛl\

/\fjɛl\/ noun

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The verdict

“fiel” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #36,843) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#36,843
frequency rank, French
3,276
“F” headwords
4
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bile, généralement celle du bœuf.

Corpus desk

Index FR-fiel · fiel · French

fiel · rank #36,843 · 4 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #36,843
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-LOW 4 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,276
  • PHOTO-FINISH faiblit

Nearest frequency peer: faiblit (-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.

Voisins de fréquence du confusable « fiel »

Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous

corpus weight

What this shows Les barres placent « fiel » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

fiel vs FL
0% similar
fiel vs fin
50% similar
fiel vs fil
75% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for fiel
PropertyValue
Headwordfiel
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\fjɛl\
Letters4
Frequency rank#36,843
Misspellings tracked4
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rang de corpus près des confusables de « fiel »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).fielse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « faiblit » (#36,842), « figue » (#36,844), « facturés » (#36,841). Parmi 3,276 lemmes en « F », « fiel » est au #36,843. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for fiel is neighbouring look-alikes ("FL", "fin", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \fjɛl\. Frequency #36,843 among 3,276 “F” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.

Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for fiel, with forms such as "feil", "ffiel", and "fiell". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "FL", "fin", "fil", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is fiel, spelled F-I-E-L.

Definition

  1. 1
    Bile, généralement celle du bœuf.
  2. 2
    Haine ; animosité ; amertume.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how fiel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. La vésicule du fiel.
  2. Amer comme fiel.

This word in other languages

bile(English)hiel(Español)fel(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • feil
  • ffiel
  • fiell
  • ifel

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fiel - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

feil2ffiel1fiell1ifel2
Edit distance from "fiel"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "fiel"?
"fiel" is spelled F-I-E-L. The IPA pronunciation is \fjɛl\.
What does "fiel" mean?
As a noun, "fiel" means: Bile, généralement celle du bœuf.
What words are commonly confused with "fiel"?
"fiel" is commonly confused with "FL", "fin", "fil". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "fiel"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "fiel" is \fjɛl\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "fiel" come from?
"fiel" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "fiel", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Gaye#36,860hare#36,876dias#36,797coms#36,773

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list