filaments
\fi.la.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“filaments” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #35,943. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,943
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de filament.
Corpus desk
Index FR-filaments · filaments · French
filaments · rank #35,943 · 14 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,943
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH filantes
Nearest frequency peer: filantes (+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 « filaments »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- ferions
ferions
64,061 corpus weight
- fiducie
fiducie
64,060 corpus weight
- filaments
filaments
64,058 corpus weight
- filantes
filantes
64,057 corpus weight
- finalisation
finalisation
64,056 corpus weight
- finish
finish
64,055 corpus weight
What this shows « filaments » 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 | filaments |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fi.la.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #35,943 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « filaments »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around filaments (IPA \fi.la.mɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #35,943 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de filament.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for filaments, with forms such as "ffilaments", "fialments", and "filaemnts". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "filment", "filament", 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 its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is filaments, spelled F-I-L-A-M-E-N-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de filament.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how filaments appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le front pointu, mal caché par des cheveux plats, rares, et qui tombaient comme des filaments de verre soufflé, couronnait par des rugosités rougeâtres une face grimaude.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffilaments
- fialments
- filaemnts
- filamennts
- filamenst
- filamentss
- filamentts
- filametns
- filamments
- filamnets
- fillaments
- filmaents
- fliaments
- iflaments
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of filaments - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).