FieldsvsfillesWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: Fields is a name, filles is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“Fields” is a name and “filles” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#24,974
“Fields” frequency rank
#723
“filles” frequency rank
25697
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Fields filles
Definition Nom de famille. Pluriel de fille.

Letter map: Fields vs filles

Shared letters muted; letters that set Fields and filles apart highlighted. Shared run: 4.

6 ch
Fields
6 ch
filles

Part-of-speech tell for Fields / filles

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Fields is aname and fillesanoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 25697, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Fields is recorded at frequency rank #24,974, classified as aname. filles is at rank #723, tagged as anoun, pronounced \fij\.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 25697, this pair ranks #339,380 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of Fields vs filles

Shared letters: efils. Private to "Fields": d. Private to "filles": -.

"Fields" · 6 letters · shape CVVCCC  ·  "filles" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Fieldsfeilds · ffields · fiedls · fieldds · fieldss · fiellds · fielsd · fileds
  • fillesffilles · filels · filless · fillse · fliles · iflles

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "Fields" and "filles" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Fields" is a name and "filles" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "Fields" vs "filles" - which ranks higher?
"filles" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #723 in our French list, against #24,974 for "Fields". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

Pair "Fields" vs "filles" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "Fields" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "filles" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #339,380 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Fields" and "filles" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Feld vs Fields". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #339,380 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list