filo
\fi.lo\
The verdict
“filo” is uncommon French (frequency #84,803 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,803
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante orthographique de phyllo.
Corpus desk
Index FR-filo · filo · French
filo · rank #84,803 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,803
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fiera
Nearest frequency peer: fiera (-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 « filo »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fautives
fautives
15,203 corpus weight
- feldspath
feldspath
15,202 corpus weight
- fiera
fiera
15,199 corpus weight
- filo
filo
15,198 corpus weight
- fiorentino
fiorentino
15,195 corpus weight
- flashball
flashball
15,193 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « filo » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | filo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fi.lo\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #84,803 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « filo » en français
Rare enough to double-check
filo is uncommon French at frequency #84,803 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fi.lo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante orthographique de phyllo.".
filo has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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 filo, spelled F-I-L-O.
Definition
- 1Variante orthographique de phyllo.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how filo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Originaire de Kyrtoni, village de montagne près de Delphes, Dina Nikolaou sert les classiques de la cuisine hellénique dans son restaurant parisien Evi Evane et dans plusieurs épiceries-traiteurs du même nom. Moussaka, salade, boulettes, mais aussi une large déclinaison de feuilletés, avec pour point commun un ingrédient : la pâte filo.
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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