filets
\fi.lɛ\
The verdict
“filets” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,483. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,483
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de filet.
Corpus desk
Index FR-filets · filets · French
filets · rank #9,483 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,483
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fantaisie
Nearest frequency peer: fantaisie (-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 « filets »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- escorte
escorte
90,521 corpus weight
- exposées
exposées
90,520 corpus weight
- fantaisie
fantaisie
90,519 corpus weight
- filets
filets
90,518 corpus weight
- fo
fo
90,517 corpus weight
- formellement
formellement
90,516 corpus weight
What this shows « filets » 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 | filets |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fi.lɛ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #9,483 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « filets »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around filets (IPA \fi.lɛ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,483 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de filet.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for filets, with forms such as "ffilets", "fielts", and "filest". 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, "fils", "films", "fines", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 filets, spelled F-I-L-E-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de filet.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how filets appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les bêtes si méfiantes qui s’abattaient à la croûle sur les fagnes pour en extraire les vers, ne prenaient point garde aux filets tendus à plat sur le sol; elles s’y empêtraient et tous leurs efforts étaient vains. Elles ne pouvaient s’en dépêtrer ou arracher le bâtonnet qui les fixe.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffilets
- fielts
- filest
- filetss
- filetts
- fillets
- filtes
- fliets
- iflets
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of filets - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).