filet
French, noun/fi.lɛ/
filet is spelled F-I-L-E-T (5 letters) and appears 11 times per million words in written French, the 6,385th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Filet is a French masculine noun meaning “trickle, drizzle (of liquid etc.), wisp (of smoke)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Fil délié, petit fil”.
What does filet mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinetrickle, drizzle (of liquid etc.), wisp (of smoke)
- 2
masculinefillet, filet (of meat)
- 3
masculinefrenulum, frenum
- 4
masculinerule
- 5
masculinefillet, listel
noun
- 1
masculinenet
- 2
masculinenet
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Fil délié, petit fil. 2. Technique de couture. 3. Maillage de cordes ou de fils destiné à empêcher le passage ou à capturer des objets de taille supérieure aux mailles. 4. Sac en mailles.
interjection: 1. Annonce indiquant qu’une balle d’engagement a touché le filet. Si cette balle est tombée dans la surface réglementaire, elle est à rejouer.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of filet
- filets plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce filet?
- /fi.lɛ/
- \fi.lɛ\
- [fi.lɛ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to filet
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is filet in French?
filet appears 11 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).