filet

• (US) enPR: fĭ'lā, fĭlā', IPA^(key): /ˈfɪleɪ/, /fɪˈleɪ/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈfɪlɪt/, /ˈfɪleɪ/
• Rhymes: -eɪ, -ɪt

filet (plural filets)

1. Alternative form of fillet

filet (third-person singular simple present filets, present participle fileting, simple past and past participle fileted)

1. Alternative form of fillet

• flite

From fil +‎ -et.

• IPA^(key): (Central)
• IPA^(key): (Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)

filet m (plural filets)

1. diminutive of fil (“thread”)
2. screw thread

   Synonym: rosca

3. filet (strip of meat or fish)
4. (architecture) fillet
5. (typography) line, bar

• “filet” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “filet”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “filet” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “filet” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From French filet.

• IPA^(key): /file/,

filet c (singular definite fileten or filet'en, plural indefinite fileter or filet'er)

1. filet, fillet

• fitetere

• “filet” in Den Danske Ordbog

Borrowed from French filet.

• IPA^(key): /fiˈleː/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: fi‧let
• Rhymes: -eː

filet m or n (plural filets, diminutive filetje n)

1. filet (of meat)

• kipfilet

• IPA^(key): /fi.lɛ/

• Audio:

  (file)

From fil +‎ -et.

filet m (plural filets)

1. trickle, drizzle (of liquid etc.), wisp (of smoke)
2. fillet, filet (of meat)
3. (anatomy) frenulum, frenum

   Synonym: frein

4. (typography) rule
5. (architecture) fillet, listel

|→ Persian: فیله

Inherited from Old French filé (past participle of filer), with change of suffix.

filet m (plural filets)

1. (fishing, sports) net
2. (used for carrying groceries) net

• filet à papillons

• → Turkish: file

• “filet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

filet m (plural filets)

1. (Jersey, fishing) net
2. (Jersey) drop of drink

• (drop of drink): filet, filot, lèrmîn, reinchette, sico

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From French filet.

filet m (definite singular fileten, indefinite plural fileter, definite plural filetene)

1. (meats) a fillet

• filetere

• “filet” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From French filet.

filet m (definite singular fileten, indefinite plural filetar, definite plural filetane)

1. (meats) a fillet

• “filet” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Borrowed from French filet.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfi.lɛt/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ilɛt
• Syllabification: fi‧let

filet m inan

1. fillet

• filet in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• filet in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from French filet.

filet n (plural fileturi)

1. screw thread