fauteuil
/ˈfoʊ.tɪl/noun
fauteuil is a noun meaning “An armchair” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-A-U-T-E-U-I-L and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 44 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fauteuil is fauteuils.
What does fauteuil mean?
noun
- 1
An armchair.
- 2
The chair of a presiding officer.
- 3
Membership in the Académie française.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce fauteuil?
- UK /fəʊˈtɜː.i/
- US /ˈfoʊ.tɪl/
Fauteuil has 3 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of fauteuil
- fauteuils plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fauteuil?
Fauteuil appears about once in every 44 million words in written English, the 204,233rd 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 fauteuil come from?
Unadapted borrowing from French fauteuil, from Germanic. Cognate with Old English fealdestōl (“folding-chair”). Doublet of faldistory, faldstool, and foldstool.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).