filous
\fi.lu\
The verdict
“filous” is uncommon French (frequency #62,999 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,999
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de filou.
Corpus desk
Index FR-filous · filous · French
filous · rank #62,999 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,999
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH filmique
Nearest frequency peer: filmique (-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 « filous »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fesser
fesser
37,005 corpus weight
- feuilletant
feuilletant
37,004 corpus weight
- filmique
filmique
37,003 corpus weight
- filous
filous
37,002 corpus weight
- foc
foc
37,001 corpus weight
- focalisés
focalisés
37,000 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « filous » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | filous |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fi.lu\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #62,999 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « filous » en français
Rare enough to double-check
filous is uncommon French at frequency #62,999 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fi.lu\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de filou.".
Zero misspellings are on record for filous in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
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 filous, spelled F-I-L-O-U-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de filou.
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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