filé
Portuguese, noun
filé is spelled F-I-L-É (4 letters) and appears 2.9 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 17,722nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Filé is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “fillet (strip of deboned meat or fish)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, file is a different word: “first/third-person singular present subjunctive”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “empenho”.
What does filé mean in English?
noun
- 1
Brazilmasculinefillet (strip of deboned meat or fish)
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- 2
third-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. empenho 2. grande desejo 3. finca-pé 4. palpite
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of filé
- filés plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to filé
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is filé in Portuguese?
filé appears 2.9 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).