files
\fil\
The verdict
“files” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,220. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,220
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de file.
Corpus desk
Index FR-files · files · French
files · rank #11,220 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,220
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH falaise
Nearest frequency peer: falaise (-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 « files »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- expliquez
expliquez
88,784 corpus weight
- expérimenté
expérimenté
88,783 corpus weight
- falaise
falaise
88,782 corpus weight
- files
files
88,781 corpus weight
- flot
flot
88,780 corpus weight
- foncier
foncier
88,779 corpus weight
What this shows « files » 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 | files |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fil\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #11,220 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « files »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around files (IPA \fil\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,220 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de file.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for files, with forms such as "ffiles", "fiels", and "filess". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "fis", "fle", "fils", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is files, spelled F-I-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de file.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffiles
- fiels
- filess
- filse
- flies
- ifles
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of files - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).