filme

\film\

/\film\/ verb

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The verdict

“filme” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,040. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#14,040
frequency rank, French
3,276
“F” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de filmer.

Corpus desk

Index FR-filme · filme · French

filme · rank #14,040 · 7 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #14,040
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,276
  • PHOTO-FINISH feeling

Nearest frequency peer: feeling (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « filme »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « filme » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

filme vs fle
60% similar
filme vs fils
60% similar
filme vs fixe
60% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for filme
PropertyValue
Headwordfilme
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\film\
Letters5
Frequency rank#14,040
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « filme »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.filmese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « feeling » (#14,039), « fondatrice » (#14,041), « formel » (#14,042). Parmi 3,276 lemmes en « F », « filme » est au #14,040. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around filme (IPA \film\), averb. Corpus frequency is #14,040 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for filme, with forms such as "ffilme", "filem", and "fillme". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "fle", "fils", "fixe", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is filme, spelled F-I-L-M-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de filmer.
  2. 2
    Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de filmer.
  3. 3
    Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de filmer.
  4. 4
    Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de filmer.
  5. 5
    Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de filmer.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how filme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. C’est ce que filme Amat Escalante, jusqu’ici connu pour des thrillers plutôt violents, de Los Bastardos à Heli (prix de la mise en scène à Cannes en 2014) en passant par la série Narcos, Mexico.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ffilme
  • filem
  • fillme
  • filmme
  • fimle
  • flime
  • iflme

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of filme - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

ffilme1filem2fillme1filmme1fimle2flime2iflme2
Edit distance from "filme"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "filme"?
"filme" is spelled F-I-L-M-E. The IPA pronunciation is \film\.
What does "filme" mean?
As a verb, "filme" means: Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de filmer.
What words are commonly confused with "filme"?
"filme" is commonly confused with "fle", "fils", "fixe". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "filme"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "filme" is \film\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "filme" come from?
"filme" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "filme", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Glenn#14,046Hamas#14,051derek#14,007Medef#14,084

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).

couille7 variantsMehdi7 variantsMeyer7 variantsBrice7 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list