fillet

1. 1.

   decorate with a lace of geometric designs

   Synonymsfilet

   Broaderdecorate
2. 2.

   cut into filets

   “filet the fish”

   Synonymsfilet

   Broadercarve

   cooking

Other forms of fillet

plural

fillets·

past tense

filletted·

present participle

filletting·

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 fillet

What does fillet mean?

fillet means "a boneless steak cut from the tenderloin of beef". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in fillet?

fillet has 2 syllables: fil-let. The stress falls on "let". In IPA it is /fəˈleɪ/.

What is another word for fillet?

Close synonyms include filet, filet, fish fillet, fish filet, lemniscus. 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 fillet a common word?

fillet is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. 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 fillet?

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