fouta
noun
fouta is a noun meaning “A piece of thin patterned cotton or linen fabric used like a bathrobe in Mediterranean countries, originally Tunisia” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-O-U-T-A, and it appears about once in every 55 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fouta is foutas.
What does fouta mean?
noun
- 1
A piece of thin patterned cotton or linen fabric used like a bathrobe in Mediterranean countries, originally Tunisia.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of fouta
- foutas plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fouta?
Fouta appears about once in every 55 million words in written English, the 231,291st 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 fouta come from?
From Arabic فُوطَة (fūṭa).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).