filament
French, noun/fi.la.mɑ̃/
filament is spelled F-I-L-A-M-E-N-T (8 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 40,183rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Filament is a French masculine noun meaning “filament” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Petit fil, petit brin long et délié, semblable à celui qui se tire de l’écorce du chanvre ou du lin”.
What does filament mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinefilament
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Petit fil, petit brin long et délié, semblable à celui qui se tire de l’écorce du chanvre ou du lin. 2. Élément lumineux, fin et allongé. 3. Fibrille. 4. Mince fil, souvent métallique, partie active d'une ampoule à incandescence.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of filament
- filaments plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce filament?
- /fi.la.mɑ̃/
- \fi.la.mɑ̃\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to filament
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is filament in French?
filament appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).