refiler
\ʁə.fi.le\
The verdict
“refiler” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #30,334. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,334
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Donner ou passer quelque chose à quelqu’un.
Corpus desk
Index FR-refiler · refiler · French
refiler · rank #30,334 · 10 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,334
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH redémarrage
Nearest frequency peer: redémarrage (-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 « refiler »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- rediffusion
rediffusion
69,670 corpus weight
- redémarrage
redémarrage
69,668 corpus weight
- refiler
refiler
69,667 corpus weight
- relâchés
relâchés
69,666 corpus weight
- remanié
remanié
69,665 corpus weight
- remboursée
remboursée
69,664 corpus weight
What this shows « refiler » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | refiler |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.fi.le\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #30,334 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « refiler »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around refiler (IPA \ʁə.fi.le\), averb. Corpus frequency is #30,334 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Donner ou passer quelque chose à quelqu’un.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for refiler, with forms such as "erfiler", "reffiler", and "refielr". 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, "régler", "reflet", "relier", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is refiler, spelled R-E-F-I-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1Donner ou passer quelque chose à quelqu’un.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how refiler appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tout ce qu’il entendait autour de lui, les tuyaux refilés d’une oreille à l’autre, les vaines discussions d’intérêts sordides, les propositions abracadabrantes, lui occasionnaient parfois des nausées.
Un des informateurs du patron […] nous a refilé un tuyau d’importance. Deux malfrats aguerris et une petite frappe en devenir ont eu vent de la prochaine opération « sac à dos ». — (François-Xavier Dillard, Un vrai jeu d’enfant, chap. 6, Fleuve Noir, 2012)
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- erfiler
- reffiler
- refielr
- refilerr
- refiller
- refilre
- reflier
- reifler
- rfeiler
- rrefiler
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of refiler - 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.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).