filet mignon

1. 1.

   small steak cut from the thick end of a beef tenderloin

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Questions about filet mignon

What does filet mignon mean?

filet mignon means "small steak cut from the thick end of a beef tenderloin".

Is filet mignon a common word?

filet mignon is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.