feuillée

\fœ.je\

/\fœ.je\/ noun

The verdict

“feuillée” is uncommon French (frequency #69,837 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#69,837
frequency rank, French
3,276
“F” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Couvert formé de branches d’arbres garnies de feuilles.

Corpus desk

Index FR-feuillee · feuillée · French

feuillée · rank #69,837 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #69,837
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,276
  • PHOTO-FINISH fermi

Nearest frequency peer: fermi (-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 « feuillée »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « feuillée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for feuillée
PropertyValue
Headwordfeuillée
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\fœ.je\
Letters8
Frequency rank#69,837
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « feuillée » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.feuilléetombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « fermi » (#69,836), « fibreuse » (#69,838), « fiduciaires » (#69,839). Parmi 3,276 lemmes en « F », « feuillée » est au #69,837. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

feuillée is uncommon French at frequency #69,837 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fœ.je\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.

feuillée doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is feuillée, spelled F-E-U-I-L-L-É-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Couvert formé de branches d’arbres garnies de feuilles.
  2. 2
    Récolte des feuilles vertes des arbres ou des plantes.
  3. 3
    Petite tranchée qui servait de latrines dans les camps provisoires et les cantonnements.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how feuillée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Comme dormait Jacob, comme dormait Judith, Booz, les yeux fermés, gisait sous la feuillée ; Or, la porte du ciel s’étant entre-bâillée Au-dessus de sa tête, un songe en descendit.
  2. Ma chaumière aurait, l’été, la feuillée des bois pour parasol, ….

This word in other languages

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "feuillée"?
"feuillée" is spelled F-E-U-I-L-L-É-E. The IPA pronunciation is \fœ.je\.
What does "feuillée" mean?
As a noun, "feuillée" means: Couvert formé de branches d’arbres garnies de feuilles.
How do you pronounce "feuillée"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "feuillée" is \fœ.je\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "feuillée" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "feuillée", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list