farfouiller
\faʁ.fu.je\
The verdict
“farfouiller” is uncommon French (frequency #78,418 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,418
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fouiller dans quelque chose avec désordre et en brouillant tout ce qui s’y trouve.
Corpus desk
Index FR-farfouiller · farfouiller · French
farfouiller · rank #78,418 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,418
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fanal
Nearest frequency peer: fanal (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « farfouiller »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Fabergé
Fabergé
21,586 corpus weight
- factorielle
factorielle
21,585 corpus weight
- fanal
fanal
21,584 corpus weight
- farfouiller
farfouiller
21,583 corpus weight
- fars
fars
21,582 corpus weight
- Felder
Felder
21,580 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « farfouiller » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | farfouiller |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \faʁ.fu.je\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #78,418 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « farfouiller » en français
Rare enough to double-check
farfouiller is uncommon French at frequency #78,418 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \faʁ.fu.je\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Fouiller dans quelque chose avec désordre et en brouillant tout ce qui s’y trouve.".
farfouiller doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is farfouiller, spelled F-A-R-F-O-U-I-L-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1Fouiller dans quelque chose avec désordre et en brouillant tout ce qui s’y trouve.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how farfouiller appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans une ruelle, nous trouvons des porcs qui farfouillent dans le ruisseau stagnant, d’où se dégage une odeur fétide.
On pourra également "farfouiller" au milieu des décombres qu’on aura occasionnés, racheter à bas prix telles grandes fabriques de l’Europe Centrale dont on aura réduit la valeur en supprimant ses débouchés […]
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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