foliot
/ˈfəʊliət/noun
foliot is a noun meaning “Part of the verge escapement in early clocks” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-O-L-I-O-T, and it appears about once in every 60 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of foliot is foliots.
What does foliot mean?
noun
- 1
Part of the verge escapement in early clocks.
- 2
A creature from Italian folklore that makes noises and flings objects about.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce foliot?
- /ˈfəʊliət/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of foliot
- foliots plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is foliot?
Foliot appears about once in every 60 million words in written English, the 243,301st 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).