filature
\fi.la.tyʁ\
The verdict
“filature” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,320. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,320
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Usine où l’on file en grand les matières textiles.
Corpus desk
Index FR-filature · filature · French
filature · rank #21,320 · 11 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,320
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fatiguant
Nearest frequency peer: fatiguant (-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 « filature »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- exponentiel…
exponentielle
78,684 corpus weight
- eyes
eyes
78,683 corpus weight
- fatiguant
fatiguant
78,682 corpus weight
- filature
filature
78,681 corpus weight
- finies
finies
78,680 corpus weight
- fixent
fixent
78,679 corpus weight
What this shows « filature » 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 | filature |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fi.la.tyʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #21,320 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « filature »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around filature (IPA \fi.la.tyʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #21,320 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for filature, with forms such as "ffilature", "fialture", and "filatrue". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "filtre", "filatures", "feature", 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 its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is filature, spelled F-I-L-A-T-U-R-E.
Definition
- 1Usine où l’on file en grand les matières textiles.
- 2Action ou art de filer en grand.
- 3Usine ou atelier où l’on élabore des andouilles.
- 4Action de suivre quelqu’un pour le surveiller.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how filature appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Filature de soie, de laine, de coton.
Le contremaître, les ouvriers d’une filature.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffilature
- fialture
- filatrue
- filatture
- filatuer
- filaturre
- filautre
- fillature
- filtaure
- fliature
- iflature
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of filature - 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 "filature", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (11 here; floor ≥5).