filin
\fi.lɛ̃\
The verdict
“filin” is uncommon French (frequency #78,429 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,429
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cordage à torsion simple, qui se distingue du grelin qui est à double torsion et du câble qui est à triple torsion.
Corpus desk
Index FR-filin · filin · French
filin · rank #78,429 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,429
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH filosofia
Nearest frequency peer: filosofia (+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 « filin »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fientes
fientes
21,575 corpus weight
- filin
filin
21,572 corpus weight
- filosofia
filosofia
21,571 corpus weight
- fixaient
fixaient
21,570 corpus weight
- fofolle
fofolle
21,569 corpus weight
- forcenés
forcenés
21,568 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « filin » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | filin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fi.lɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #78,429 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « filin » en français
Rare enough to double-check
filin is uncommon French at frequency #78,429 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fi.lɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for filin in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 filin, spelled F-I-L-I-N.
Definition
- 1Cordage à torsion simple, qui se distingue du grelin qui est à double torsion et du câble qui est à triple torsion.
- 2Câble ou fil.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how filin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les haubans, les écoutes, les amarres sont de filin.
C’étaient des hommes qui m’apparaissaient ainsi hurlant, aboyant et se suspendant au bout d’un filin pour atteindre au plus vite leur but.
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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