farouche
/fəˈɹuːʃ/adjective
farouche is an adjective meaning “Sullen or recalcitrant” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-A-R-O-U-C-H-E, and it appears about once in every 95 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does farouche mean?
adjective
- 1
Sullen or recalcitrant.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce farouche?
- /fəˈɹuːʃ/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of farouche
- more farouche comparative
- most farouche superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is farouche?
Farouche appears about once in every 95 million words in written English, the 313,259th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does farouche come from?
Unadapted borrowing from French farouche.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).