filer la comète
\fi.le la kɔ.mɛt\
The verdict
“filer la comète” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Dormir dehors, être sans logis, vagabonder.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | filer la comète |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fi.le la kɔ.mɛt\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “filer la comète” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
filer la comète is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \fi.le la kɔ.mɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Dormir dehors, être sans logis, vagabonder.".
filer la comète doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 filer la comète, spelled F-I-L-E-R- -L-A- -C-O-M-È-T-E.
Definition
- 1Dormir dehors, être sans logis, vagabonder.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “filer la comète”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is F-I-L-E-R- -L-A- -C-O-M-È-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \fi.le la kɔ.mɛt\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.