filé

From French filé (“threaded”), after the way sassafras is processed.

• IPA^(key): /fɪˈleɪ/, /fiːˈleɪ/
• Homophone: filet

filé (uncountable)

1. A spicy herb made from the dried and ground leaves of the North American sassafras tree (Sassafras albidum) and used in Louisiana Creole cooking.

• flie, elif, life, lief, Life, Fiel

• IPA^(key): [ˈfɪlɛː]

filé n (indeclinable)

1. fillet (strip of deboned meat or fish)

• “filé”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
• “filé”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “filé”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

From filer (“to turn into (a) thread(s)”), from Latin fīlāre, from fīlum (“thread”).

• IPA^(key): /fi.le/

filé (feminine filée, masculine plural filés, feminine plural filées)

1. past participle of filer

filé m (plural filés)

1. simple or twisted textile thread, as used for needlework
2. fine, equivalent precious metal thread, used in luxury production

   Les filés d'or et d'argent ont maintes applications en orfèvrerie, couture etc.

   Gold and silver threads have plenty uses in jewelry, fashion etc.

3. (Louisiana) dried and ground sassafras leaves used to spice and thicken gumbo

• “filé”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• fiel

From French filer (“to get away”).

filé

1. to get away

• Alcée Fortier, Louisiana Folktales

Borrowed from French filet,^[1][2] ultimately from Latin fīlum (“thread”). Doublet of filete.

• Rhymes: -ɛ
• Hyphenation: fi‧lé

filé m (plural filés)

1. (Brazil) fillet (strip of deboned meat or fish)

   Synonym: (Portugal) filete

filé

1. first-person singular preterite indicative of filar

Borrowed from French filet.

filé c

1. a fillet (boneless strip or compact piece of meat or fish), tenderloin (when of beef or pork)

• filé in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• filé in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• filé in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)