filiforme
\fi.li.fɔʁm\
The verdict
“filiforme” is uncommon French (frequency #72,331 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,331
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est délié comme un fil.
Corpus desk
Index FR-filiforme · filiforme · French
filiforme · rank #72,331 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,331
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH FFE
Nearest frequency peer: FFE (-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 « filiforme »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- faster
faster
27,674 corpus weight
- FFE
FFE
27,671 corpus weight
- filiforme
filiforme
27,670 corpus weight
- Finlay
Finlay
27,669 corpus weight
- flagship
flagship
27,668 corpus weight
- floating
floating
27,666 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « filiforme » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | filiforme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fi.li.fɔʁm\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #72,331 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « filiforme » en français
Rare enough to double-check
filiforme is uncommon French at frequency #72,331 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \fi.li.fɔʁm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for filiforme in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 filiforme, spelled F-I-L-I-F-O-R-M-E.
Definition
- 1Qui est délié comme un fil.
- 2Long ou grand et mince comme un fil.
- 3Maigre, en parlant d’un être humain.
- 4Qualifie un pouls très faible et qui ne se sent presque plus.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how filiforme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
FILIFORME, adject., filiformis ; fadenförmig, fädlich (all.) (filum, fil, forma, forme) ; qui a la forme de fil. On emploie ce terme : nᵒ 1 en minéralogie, pour désigner un corps qui ressemble à un fil plus ou moins contourné. (ex. Argent natif filiforme) ; nᵒ 2 en botanique, pour désigner les parties qui sont longues, grêles et cylindriques ou aplaties,…
Après l’incubation […], il sort de chaque œuf un mince ver filiforme qui témoigne d’un vif appétit.
This word in other languages
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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