filial

\fi.ljal\

/\fi.ljal\/ adj

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The verdict

“filial” is uncommon French (frequency #70,651 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#70,651
frequency rank, French
3,276
“F” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à un enfant à l’égard de ses parents.

Corpus desk

Index FR-filial · filial · French

filial · rank #70,651 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #70,651
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,276
  • PHOTO-FINISH figurante

Nearest frequency peer: figurante (-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.

Rangs de longue queue près de « filial »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « filial » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for filial
PropertyValue
Headwordfilial
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\fi.ljal\
Letters6
Frequency rank#70,651
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « filial » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).filialtombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « figurante » (#70,650), « fictionnel » (#70,649), « flocage » (#70,653). Parmi 3,276 lemmes en « F », « filial » est au #70,651. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

filial is uncommon French at frequency #70,651 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \fi.ljal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Relatif à un enfant à l’égard de ses parents.".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for filial, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is filial, spelled F-I-L-I-A-L.

Definition

  1. 1
    Relatif à un enfant à l’égard de ses parents.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how filial appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Obéissance filiale.
  2. Crainte filiale.

This word in other languages

filial(English)filial(Español)filial(Português)

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "filial"?
"filial" is spelled F-I-L-I-A-L. The IPA pronunciation is \fi.ljal\.
What does "filial" mean?
As an adjective, "filial" means: Relatif à un enfant à l’égard de ses parents.
How do you pronounce "filial"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "filial" is \fi.ljal\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "filial" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "filial", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Fichte#70,648ferrés#70,643farina#70,633garret#70,671

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list