filée
\fi.le\
The verdict
“filée” is uncommon French (frequency #64,449 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,449
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rangée de 3 ou 4 carreaux de large que l’on pose dans l’axe le plus long d’une pièce, et qui sert en suite de guide pour le reste de la pose.
Corpus desk
Index FR-filee · filée · French
filée · rank #64,449 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,449
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH figura
Nearest frequency peer: figura (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « filée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ferrailleur
ferrailleur
35,554 corpus weight
- figura
figura
35,553 corpus weight
- filée
filée
35,552 corpus weight
- flatteuses
flatteuses
35,550 corpus weight
- Florine
Florine
35,549 corpus weight
- fonctionnel…
fonctionnellement
35,548 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « filée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | filée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fi.le\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #64,449 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « filée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
filée is uncommon French at frequency #64,449 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fi.le\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
filée doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is filée, spelled F-I-L-É-E.
Definition
- 1Rangée de 3 ou 4 carreaux de large que l’on pose dans l’axe le plus long d’une pièce, et qui sert en suite de guide pour le reste de la pose.
- 2Grande répétition, dans l’émission de télévision The Voice.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how filée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Puis, direction les abords du plateau où la « filée » a commencé. « Vous savez ce que c’est ? demande Matthieu Notebaert. C’est la grande répétition des talents, avec leurs chansons. Ils enchaînent, les uns après les autres ».
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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