filão vs filé, What's the Difference?

Which to use

“filão” and “filé” are a confusable Portuguese pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#49,976
“filão” frequency rank: #17,797
“filé” frequency rank: 67773
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	filão	filé
Definition	intrusão de rochas eruptivas em fendas	empenho

Letter map: filão vs filé

Shared letters muted; letters that set filão and filé apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. filão runs 5 letters (CVCVV) against filé's 4 (CVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

5 ch

filão

4 ch

filé

Spelling & dictionary notes on filão vs filé

filão and filé are indexed as a confusable Portuguese pair. We have no recorded pronunciation or part of speech for both members, so the spelling overlap is what we can show you: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 67773, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

filão is recorded at frequency rank #49,976, classified as anoun. filé is at rank #17,797, tagged as anoun.

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 67773, this pair ranks #4,505 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of filão vs filé

Shared letters: fil. Private to "filão": oã. Private to "filé": é.

"filão" · 5 letters · shape CVCVV · "filé" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "filão" and "filé" be used interchangeably?

No. They differ by 1 letter(s) in length, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.

In ordinary Portuguese text, does "filão" or "filé" show up more?

"filé" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #17,797 in our Portuguese list, against #49,976 for "filão". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

You've compared "filão" and "filé". Here's where to go from here.

Full dictionary entry for "filão" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "filé" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #4,505 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"filão" and "filé" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "filão vs finado". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #4,505 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.