filé

noun

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The verdict

“filé” has 5 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #17,797. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#17,797
frequency rank, Portuguese
853
“F” headwords
5
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - empenho

Corpus desk

Index PT-file · filé · Portuguese

filé · rank #17,797 · 5 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #17,797
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 5 variants
  • BOOK-MID 853
  • PHOTO-FINISH feiticeira

Nearest frequency peer: feiticeira (-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.

Pares de rank junto ao íman ortográfico “filé”

Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho

corpus weight

What this shows “filé” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

filé vs fim
50% similar
filé vs fio
50% similar
filé vs fit
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for filé
PropertyValue
Headwordfilé
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters4
Frequency rank#17,797
Misspellings tracked5
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequência do íman ortográfico “filé”

Esta escala corre do núcleo do português quotidiano (esquerda) até o rastro de formas raras (direita).filécai aqui:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

O eixo é logarítmico: cada tick marca cerca de dez vezes menos frequência. Na mesma faixa de raridade aparecem “feiticeira” (#17,796), “fatura” (#17,794), “flutuante” (#17,800). Entre 853 lemas com “F”, “filé” fica em #17,797. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 5 spelling variants around filé, anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,797 among 853 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 12 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for filé, with forms such as "ffilé", "fillé", and "fiél". 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, "fim", "fio", "fit", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is filé, spelled F-I-L-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    empenho
  2. 2
    grande desejo
  3. 3
    finca-pé
  4. 4
    palpite
  5. 5
    fé
  6. 6
    a rede em que se faz o bordado
  7. 7
    o trabalho de bordado feito num fundo de rede
  8. 8
    nome vulgar do músculo psoas da vaca, da vitela, do porco, etc.
  9. 9
    bife feito com essa carne
  10. 10
    filete de peixe
  11. 11
    pessoa atrativa
  12. 12
    o que de bom ou melhor houver que se possa ter em um determinado contexto

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how filé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Party Brazil Phrasebook 2014 Slang, Music, Fun and Futebol
  2. Ponte Aérea manual de sobrevivência entre Rio e São Paulo

Antonyms

osso

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ffilé
  • fillé
  • fiél
  • flié
  • iflé

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of filé - 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.

ffilé1fillé1fiél2flié2iflé2
Edit distance from "filé"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "filé"?
"filé" is spelled F-I-L-É.
What does "filé" mean?
As a noun, "filé" means: empenho
What words are commonly confused with "filé"?
"filé" is commonly confused with "fim", "fio", "fit". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "filé" come from?
"filé" is a Portuguese word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "filé", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

gole#17,806heim#17,811lead#17,835cave#17,725

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).

cast5 variantscape5 variantscale5 variantsbossa5 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list