follis
noun
follis is a noun meaning “A large bronze coin minted during the Roman Empire” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-O-L-L-I-S and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 33 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of follis is folles.
What does follis mean?
noun
- 1
A large bronze coin minted during the Roman Empire.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce follis?
Follis has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of follis
- folles plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is follis?
Follis appears about once in every 33 million words in written English, the 176,009th 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 follis come from?
From Latin follis (“a bag”). Doublet of fals and fool.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).