filet

1. 1.

   decorate with a lace of geometric designs

   Synonymsfillet

   Broaderdecorate
2. 2.

   cut into filets

   “filet the fish”

   Synonymsfillet

   Broadercarve

   cooking

Other forms of filet

plural

filets·

past tense

filetted·

present participle

filetting·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about filet

What does filet mean?

filet means "a boneless steak cut from the tenderloin of beef". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in filet?

filet has 2 syllables: fi-let. The stress falls on "let". In IPA it is /fɪˈleɪ/.

What is another word for filet?

Close synonyms include fillet, fillet, fish fillet, fish filet, fillet. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is filet a common word?

filet is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with filet?

21 words rhyme with filet. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.