fila
\fi.la\
The verdict
“fila” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #46,763) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #46,763
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de filer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fila · fila · French
fila · rank #46,763 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #46,763
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fic
Nearest frequency peer: fic (-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 « fila »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- fey
fey
53,241 corpus weight
- FH
FH
53,240 corpus weight
- fic
fic
53,239 corpus weight
- fila
fila
53,238 corpus weight
- filmant
filmant
53,237 corpus weight
- finalisée
finalisée
53,235 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « fila » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fila |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fi.la\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #46,763 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « fila »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for fila is neighbouring look-alikes ("FL", "fin", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced \fi.la\. Frequency #46,763 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de filer.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for fila, with forms such as "ffila", "filla", and "flia". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "FL", "fin", "fit", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is fila, spelled F-I-L-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de filer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fila appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’instant fila et il rangea les boîtes de nouveau, mais sans les rescotcher, dans le bas de la bibliothèque.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffila
- filla
- flia
- ifla
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fila - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "fila", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).