What is Filet?
Quick Answer
Filet is a regional beef-cut name for the beef tenderloin, on the loin primal (psoas major).
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What is Filet in simple terms?
What is Filet called in the United States?
US retail labels for beef tenderloin appear in the names-by-country section; common forms include the mapped English terms listed there.
Where is Filet on the cow?
Is Filet steak?
It is a beef muscle sold as steak or roast depending on thickness and market—still beef tenderloin anatomically.
Is Filet the same as Striploin?
How do I translate Filet for travel?
Use translation URLs from the list on this page, or open the Tenderloin hub.
What is another name for Filet?
“Filet” is a regional beef-cut name that maps to the canonical cut Tenderloin (loin primal).
Use the names-by-country section below when shopping or ordering abroad.
Global cut guide
Where it comes from
Most tender muscle of the loin; center cuts often sold as filet mignon. It is part of the loin primal (psoas major).
In menus and butcher shops it is often discussed next to Striploin, Ribeye, and T Bone.
What it's called in other countries
- Albania: fileto
- Andhra Pradesh: mettati mamsam
- Argentina: Lomo
- Australia: eye fillet
- Austria: lungenbraten
- Bangladesh: undercut bd · naram bd
- Belarus: vyrazka
- Belgium: filet
- Bolivia: lomo fino
- Bosnia & Herzegovina: biftek
- Brazil: Filé mignon
- Bulgaria: bonfile
- Canada: tenderloin
- Chile: Filete
- China: niu liu
- Colombia: Lomo fino
- Costa Rica: lomito
- Croatia: biftek
- Czech Republic: svíčková
- Denmark: Mørbrad
- Ecuador: lomo fino
- Egypt: erq filletu
- El Salvador: lomito
- Estonia: sisefilee
- Ethiopia: fisilo · tere siga cut · kitfo cut · le tere siga
- Finland: sisäfilee
- France: Filet
- Germany: Filet
- Goa: undercut goa · lomo
- Greece: φιλέτο
- Guatemala: lomito
- Honduras: filete
- Hungary: bélszín
- Indonesia: has dalam
- Iran: fileh
- Ireland: fillet
- Israel: פילה בקר
- Italy: Filetto · Lombata
- Japan: hire
- Karnataka: undercut ka · naram maunsa
- Kazakhstan: sübe
- Kenya: fillet ke · nyama laini
- Kerala: undercut kl · naram · poti rachi
- Latvia: iekšfileja
- Lithuania: išpjova
- Maharashtra: undercut mh · pasanda mh · naram mh
- Malaysia: daging batang pinang
- Mexico: Filete
- Montenegro: biftek
- Morocco: filet
- Netherlands: Ossenhaas
- New Zealand: eye fillet nz
- Nicaragua: filete
- Nigeria: fillet ng
- North Macedonia: biftek
- Norway: indrefilet
- Pakistan: bachhiya · bachhiya undercut · bhains · bhains undercut · pasanda pk · parcha pk
- Panama: filete
- Paraguay: Lomo
- Peru: lomo fino
- Philippines: solomillo
- Poland: polędwica
- Portugal: Lombinho
- Qatar: filet qa
- Romania: mușchiuleț
- Russia: vyrezka
- Saudi Arabia: filet sa
- Singapore: fillet sg
- Slovakia: sviečkovica
- Slovenia: pljučna pečenka
- South Africa: fillet sa
- South Korea: ansim
- Spain: Solomillo
- Sweden: oxfilé
- Switzerland: filet
- Taiwan: fei li
- Tamil Nadu: undercut tn · naram tn
- Telangana: pasanda · put · parcha · rawa tg · naram tg
- Thailand: san nai
- Turkey: bonfile
- UAE: beef tenderloin uae
- Ukraine: vyrizka
- United Kingdom: Fillet steak
- United States: Beef tenderloin · Filet mignon
- Uruguay: Lomo
- Uzbekistan: latta go'sht
- Venezuela: lomito
- Vietnam: than noi · bo luc lac
Cooking methods
Typical methods include high-heat searing or grilling for steaks, resting before slicing, and cutting across the grain when the muscle is fibrous. Because this cut sits on the loin primal (psoas major), adjust time and temperature to thickness and marbling.
Translations across countries
- Albania → Andhra Pradesh (fileto)
- Albania → Argentina (fileto)
- Albania → Australia (fileto)
- Albania → Austria (fileto)
- Albania → Bangladesh (fileto)
- Albania → Belarus (fileto)
- Albania → Belgium (fileto)
- Albania → Bolivia (fileto)
- Albania → Bosnia & Herzegovina (fileto)
- Albania → Brazil (fileto)
- Albania → Bulgaria (fileto)
- Albania → Canada (fileto)
- Albania → Chile (fileto)
- Albania → China (fileto)
- Albania → Colombia (fileto)
- Albania → Costa Rica (fileto)
- Albania → Croatia (fileto)
- Albania → Czech Republic (fileto)
- Albania → Denmark (fileto)
- Albania → Ecuador (fileto)
- Albania → Egypt (fileto)
- Albania → El Salvador (fileto)
- Albania → Estonia (fileto)
- Albania → Ethiopia (fileto)
- Albania → Finland (fileto)
- Albania → France (fileto)
- Albania → Germany (fileto)
- Albania → Goa (fileto)
- Albania → Greece (fileto)
- Albania → Guatemala (fileto)
- Albania → Honduras (fileto)
- Albania → Hungary (fileto)
- Albania → Indonesia (fileto)
- Albania → Iran (fileto)
- Albania → Ireland (fileto)
- Albania → Israel (fileto)
- Albania → Italy (fileto)
- Albania → Japan (fileto)
- Albania → Karnataka (fileto)
- Albania → Kazakhstan (fileto)
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