file
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,678
in French word usage
Misspellings
3
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
file is aFrenchnoun. It means: Suite ou rangée de choses ou de personnes disposées en long et l’une derrière l’autre. Pronounced \fil\. It ranks #3,678 in French word frequency. Often confused with FL and fin.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | file |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fil\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #3,678 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for file is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fil\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,678 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 3 documented wrong-spelling variants for file, with forms such as "ffile", "flie", and "ifle". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, 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, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is file, spelled F-I-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Suite ou rangée de choses ou de personnes disposées en long et l’une derrière l’autre.
- 2Suite ou rangée de choses ou de personnes disposées en long et l’une derrière l’autre.
- 3Ligne de soldats disposés les uns derrière les autres.
- 4Celui qui vient le premier dans une hiérarchie, qui est à la tête d’une entreprise, etc.
- 5Vaisseau qui est le premier de la ligne de bataille.
- 6Type abstrait de données séquentielles en FIFO, c’est-à-dire où le premier élément accessible est le premier à avoir été ajouté.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ffile,flie,ifle
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "file"
Frequency rank: #3,678 in French
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