filament
\fi.la.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“filament” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #40,271. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,271
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petit fil, petit brin long et délié, semblable à celui qui se tire de l’écorce du chanvre ou du lin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-filament · filament · French
filament · rank #40,271 · 12 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,271
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH feuilletée
Nearest frequency peer: feuilletée (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « filament »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- falsifié
falsifié
59,733 corpus weight
- fautive
fautive
59,732 corpus weight
- feuilletée
feuilletée
59,731 corpus weight
- filament
filament
59,730 corpus weight
- Flamanville
Flamanville
59,729 corpus weight
- flaques
flaques
59,728 corpus weight
What this shows « filament » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | filament |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fi.la.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #40,271 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « filament »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around filament (IPA \fi.la.mɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #40,271 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for filament, with forms such as "ffilament", "fialment", and "filaemnt". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "filent", "filant", "filment", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 filament, spelled F-I-L-A-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Petit fil, petit brin long et délié, semblable à celui qui se tire de l’écorce du chanvre ou du lin.
- 2Élément lumineux, fin et allongé.
- 3Fibrille.
- 4Mince fil, souvent métallique, partie active d'une ampoule à incandescence.
- 5Filament solaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how filament appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les premiers essais de fabrication datent de 1855 où Adhémar de Lausanne, prenait brevet pour la production d’une « soie végétale », transformation en filaments d’une dissolution de nitro-cellulose.
Des filaments pareils à des larmes de lait Ont pleuré, sous le vent cruel qui les repousse, À travers de petits caillots de marne rousse Pour s’aller perdre où la pente les appelait.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffilament
- fialment
- filaemnt
- filamennt
- filamentt
- filametn
- filamment
- filamnet
- fillament
- filmaent
- fliament
- iflament
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of filament - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).