filler
\fi.lœʁ\
The verdict
“filler” is uncommon French (frequency #80,210 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,210
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Granulat composé d’éléments de très petites dimensions (≤ 0,08 mm) utilisé soit comme charge de remplissage pour augmenter la compacité notamment d’un béton, d’un sol, soit comme constituant de cer...
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Index FR-filler · filler · French
filler · rank #80,210 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,210
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH finito
Nearest frequency peer: finito (+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 « filler »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fico
fico
19,794 corpus weight
- figurerait
figurerait
19,793 corpus weight
- filler
filler
19,791 corpus weight
- finito
finito
19,790 corpus weight
- flap
flap
19,789 corpus weight
- flashe
flashe
19,788 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « filler » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | filler |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fi.lœʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #80,210 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « filler » en français
Rare enough to double-check
filler is uncommon French at frequency #80,210 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fi.lœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for filler, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is filler, spelled F-I-L-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1Granulat composé d’éléments de très petites dimensions (≤ 0,08 mm) utilisé soit comme charge de remplissage pour augmenter la compacité notamment d’un béton, d’un sol, soit comme constituant de certains liants hydrauliques (ciments) pour en prolonger le temps ouvrable, soit comme agent de rigidification des mélanges bitumineux.
- 2Épisode d’anime n’appartenant pas à la trame du manga d’origine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how filler appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En 1975, G.SUSS de la Technische Hochschule de Darmstadt, a repris l’étude de l’influence de la taille des particules de filler sur la rhéologie des mélanges filler-liant.
Les trois dernières statistiques représentent les publications qui se focalisent sur les propriétés des fillers et de leur influence sur le comportement d’une matrice cimentaire.
Synonyms
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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