fil
/fil/
The verdict
“fil” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #35,592) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #35,592
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 853
- “F” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - fio
Corpus desk
Index PT-fil · fil · Portuguese
fil · rank #35,592 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,592
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 853
- PHOTO-FINISH feição
Nearest frequency peer: feição (-2 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.
Vizinhos de frequência do confusável “fil”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- exageradame…
exageradamente
64,416 corpus weight
- extrajudici…
extrajudicial
64,413 corpus weight
- FDP
FDP
64,412 corpus weight
- feição
feição
64,411 corpus weight
- fil
fil
64,409 corpus weight
- fito
fito
64,404 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “fil” face aos lemas portugueses mais próximos por rank, não um reprint da secretária de confusáveis.
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 | fil |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /fil/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #35,592 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “fil”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for fil is neighbouring look-alikes ("foi", "for", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /fil/. Frequency #35,592 among 853 “F” headwords. Gloss: "fio".
No misspelling variants are generated for fil in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "foi", "for", "fim", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is fil, spelled F-I-L.
Definition
- 1fio
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 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).