Definitions for fillet

fillet fil·let

Spelling: [fil-it; usually fi-ley for 1, 10]
IPA: /ˈfɪl ɪt; usually fɪˈleɪ for 1, 10/

Fillet is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 71 anagrams from letters in fillet (efillt).

Definitions for fillet

noun

  1. Cookery. a boneless cut or slice of meat or fish, especially the beef tenderloin. a piece of veal or other meat boned, rolled, and tied for roasting.
  2. a narrow band of ribbon or the like worn around the head, usually as an ornament; headband.
  3. any narrow strip, as wood or metal.
  4. a strip of any material used for binding.
  5. Bookbinding. a decorative line impressed on a book cover, usually at the top and bottom of the back. a rolling tool for impressing such lines.
  6. Architecture. Also called list. a narrow flat molding or area, raised or sunk between larger moldings or areas. a narrow portion of the surface of a column left between adjoining flutes.
  7. Anatomy. lemniscus.
  8. a raised rim or ridge, as a ring on the muzzle of a gun.
  9. Metallurgy. a concave strip forming a rounded interior angle in a foundry pattern.

verb (used with object)

  1. Cookery. to cut or prepare (meat or fish) as a fillet. to cut fillets from.
  2. to bind or adorn with or as if with a fillet.
  3. Machinery. to round off (an interior angle) with a fillet.

Origin of fillet

1300-50; Middle English filet Anglo-French, Middle French, equivalent to fil thread + -et -et

Examples for fillet

Thin and fillet a pair of soles, each weighing about a pound.

I would at any time prefer a slice off the fillet of a buffalo to any pheasant.

If the leafwork on the helm were tossed up backward, it would hide the fillet.

fillet a sole and interlard each piece with a bit of anchovy.

She said that "the most expensive piece of meat in a local butcher [in France] is a fillet of horse meat."

He remained all day on the sea-shore, his head only held on to his body by a fillet.

The woman was in white fur with a fillet of seaweed round her head.

A snood or fillet of blue ribbon confined her luxuriant hair.

We'll have peas with the fillet, and potato balls and Brussels sprouts.

The hair was blonde, and bound by a fillet (infula) woven of gold.

Word Value for fillet
Scrable

9

Words with friends

11

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