filoche
\fi.lɔʃ\
The verdict
“filoche” is uncommon French (frequency #52,693 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,693
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tissu à larges mailles ou filet fait de fil, de corde ou de soie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-filoche · filoche · French
filoche · rank #52,693 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,693
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fleet
Nearest frequency peer: fleet (+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 « filoche »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fessées
fessées
47,312 corpus weight
- FFT
FFT
47,310 corpus weight
- filoche
filoche
47,308 corpus weight
- fleet
fleet
47,307 corpus weight
- Flers
Flers
47,306 corpus weight
- flotteurs
flotteurs
47,304 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « filoche » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | filoche |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fi.lɔʃ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #52,693 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « filoche » en français
Rare enough to double-check
filoche is uncommon French at frequency #52,693 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fi.lɔʃ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for filoche in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is filoche, spelled F-I-L-O-C-H-E.
Definition
- 1Tissu à larges mailles ou filet fait de fil, de corde ou de soie.
- 2Filet dans lequel on place le poisson juste pêché.
- 3Franco-provençal (Dauphiné, Savoie) Sac à provisions.
- 4Filature policière.
- 5Bourse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how filoche appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Filoche de soie, de fil.
Les filoches à mailles fines suspendues par une cordelette baignent dans l’eau, et les prises y frétillent.
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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