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Fula

/ˈfuːlə/noun

Fula is a noun meaning “A member of a largely pastoral Muslim people of West Africa” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-U-L-A, and it appears about once in every 21 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of Fula is Fulas.

What does Fula mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A member of a largely pastoral Muslim people of West Africa.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce Fula?

  • /ˈfuːlə/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-Fula.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of Fula

  • Fulas plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is Fula?

Fula appears about once in every 21 million words in written English, the 138,319th 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).

Fula in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense people:

LanguageWords
FrenchPeul, Peule
Portuguesefula

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.