filiformes
\fi.li.fɔʁm\
The verdict
“filiformes” is uncommon French (frequency #92,732 among 137,178 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,732
- frequency rank, French
- 137,178
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Pluriel de filiforme.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | filiformes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fi.li.fɔʁm\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #92,732 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “filiformes” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
filiformes is uncommon French at frequency #92,732 among 137,178 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \fi.li.fɔʁm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de filiforme.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for filiformes, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is filiformes, spelled F-I-L-I-F-O-R-M-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de filiforme.
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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Using “filiformes”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is F-I-L-I-F-O-R-M-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.