filtrer
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#18,751
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
filtrer is aFrenchverb. It means: Passer par un filtre pour séparer un ou des éléments constituants. Pronounced \fil.tʁe\. Often confused with filtres and filer.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | filtrer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fil.tʁe\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #18,751 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for filtrer is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fil.tʁe\. Corpus data places it at rank #18,751 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for filtrer, with forms such as "ffiltrer", "filltrer", and "filrter". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "filtres", "filer", "filtre", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is filtrer, spelled F-I-L-T-R-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Passer par un filtre pour séparer un ou des éléments constituants.
- 2Passer par un filtre, pénétrer à travers les pores, les interstices d’un corps quelconque.
- 3Passer au travers d’une chose conçue comme obstacle, ralentissement, ou paroi infranchissable.
- 4Trier le bon du mauvais, arrêter le mauvais pour ne laisser passer que le bon, ou au contraire, retenir le bon en laissant partir le mauvais.
- 5Appliquer un filtre à un signal.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ffiltrer,filltrer,filrter,filterr,filtrerr,filtrrer,filttrer,fitlrer,flitrer,ifltrer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for filtrer
Misspelling Variants of "filtrer"
Frequency rank: #18,751 in French
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