FilipvsfilleTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#43,437
“Filip” frequency rank
#312
“fille” frequency rank
43749
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Filip fille
Definition Prénom masculin. Enfant de genre féminin, par opposition à garçon ; aussi appelée fillette ou petite fille.

Letter map: Filip vs fille

Shared letters muted; letters that set Filip and fille apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. Filip (CVCVC) and fille (CVCCV) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

5 ch
Filip
5 ch
fille

Role in the sentence - Filip and fille

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Filip is aname and filleanoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 43749, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Filip is recorded at frequency rank #43,437, classified as aname. fille is at rank #312, 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 43749, this pair ranks #215,726 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of Filip vs fille

Shared letters: fil. Private to "Filip": p. Private to "fille": e.

"Filip" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC  ·  "fille" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Filip ← ffilip · fiilp · filipp · fillip · filpi · fliip · iflip
  • fille ← ffille · filel · flile · iflle

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "Filip" for "fille" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Filip" is a name and "fille" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "Filip" or "fille"?
"fille" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #312 in our French list, against #43,437 for "Filip". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "Filip" and "fille".

  • Full dictionary entry for "Filip" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "fille" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #215,726 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Filip" and "fille" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "filez vs Filip". 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 #215,726 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