fil électrique
\fi.l‿e.lɛk.tʁik\
The verdict
“fil électrique” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ensemble constitué d’une gaine isolante protégeant une âme conductrice.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fil-electrique · fil électrique · French
fil électrique · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "F" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fil électrique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fi.l‿e.lɛk.tʁik\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fil électrique » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fil électrique is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \fi.l‿e.lɛk.tʁik\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ensemble constitué d’une gaine isolante protégeant une âme conductrice.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for fil électrique, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 fil électrique, spelled F-I-L- -É-L-E-C-T-R-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Ensemble constitué d’une gaine isolante protégeant une âme conductrice.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fil électrique appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour manipuler une installation électrique en toute sécurité il est important de respecter des normes de couleur pour les fils électriques.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.