filer
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,321
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
filer is aFrenchverb. It means: Tordre ensemble plusieurs brins de chanvre, de lin, de soie, de laine, etc., pour qu’ils forment un fil. Pronounced \fi.le\. It ranks #7,321 in French word frequency. Often confused with fle and fils.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | filer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fi.le\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #7,321 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for filer is 5 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fi.le\. Corpus data places it at rank #7,321 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 18 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for filer, with forms such as "ffiler", "fielr", and "filerr". 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, "fle", "fils", "film", 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 filer, spelled F-I-L-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Tordre ensemble plusieurs brins de chanvre, de lin, de soie, de laine, etc., pour qu’ils forment un fil.
- 2Tirer un fil de son corps, en parlant des insectes ou des araignées.
- 3Conduire, développer progressivement et avec art.
- 4Tirer de l’or, de l’argent en les passant à la filière.
- 5Couvrir d’un fil d’or ou d’autre métal, un fil de soie, de chanvre, etc.
- 6Larguer, lâcher, relâcher.
- 7Prolonger l’exécution d’un son, d’une mesure, en commençant piano, pour augmenter jusqu’au forte et finir ensuite comme on a commencé.
- 8Suivre quelqu’un et le surveiller discrètement ; pister.
- 9Aller de suite, l’un après l’autre.
- 10Donner.
- 11S’allonger en filets, en parlant d’une matière molle et tenace.
- 12Couler doucement et sans se diviser en gouttes, en parlant d’un liquide.
- 13Monter et donner de la fumée, en parlant de la flamme, de la lumière d'une lampe, d'une bougie.
- 14Avancer rapidement.
- 15S’en aller ; se retirer.
- 16Se bagarrer.
- 17S’allonger exagérément, généralement en devenant fragile.
- 18Se sentir. (Le plus souvent utilisé sous une forme négative)
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ffiler,fielr,filerr,filler,filre,flier,ifler
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for filer
Misspelling Variants of "filer"
Frequency rank: #7,321 in French
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