fouse
verb
fouse is a verb meaning “To tumble, disarrange, rumple” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-O-U-S-E and has one syllable, and it appears about once in every 78 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does fouse mean?
verb
- 1
To tumble, disarrange, rumple.
- 2
To soil, dirty.
- 3
To fade.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce fouse?
Fouse has one syllable (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 fouse
- fouses present, singular, he/she/it
- fousing participle, present
- foused participle, past
- fowse
- fouce
- fouss
- fousse
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fouse?
Fouse appears about once in every 78 million words in written English, the 279,513th 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 fouse come from?
From Middle English fousen, fusen, from Old English fȳsan (“to hasten”), from Proto-West Germanic *funsijan (“to make ready”). Doublet of feeze, fease, and faze.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).