filii
\ˈfi.li.i\
The verdict
“filii” is uncommon French (frequency #99,091 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,091
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de filio.
Corpus desk
Index FR-filii · filii · French
filii · rank #99,091 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,091
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH Fiesole
Nearest frequency peer: Fiesole (-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 « filii »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- feast
feast
914 corpus weight
- feins
feins
913 corpus weight
- Fiesole
Fiesole
911 corpus weight
- filii
filii
910 corpus weight
- filled
filled
909 corpus weight
- finançons
finançons
908 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « filii » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | filii |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈfi.li.i\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #99,091 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « filii » en français
Rare enough to double-check
filii is uncommon French at frequency #99,091 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈfi.li.i\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de filio.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for filii, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is filii, spelled F-I-L-I-I.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de filio.
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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