feuillu
\fœ.jy\
The verdict
“feuillu” is an uncommon French word, ranked #90,723 in French word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #90,723
- frequency rank, French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Qui possède beaucoup de feuilles.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | feuillu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fœ.jy\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #90,723 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “feuillu” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for feuillu is 7 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fœ.jy\. Corpus data places it at rank #90,723 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No generated misspelling entries exist for feuillu in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is feuillu, spelled F-E-U-I-L-L-U.
Definition
- 1Qui possède beaucoup de feuilles.
- 2Qualifie les arbres qui portent des feuilles, par opposition à ceux qui portent des aiguilles, les conifères.
- 3Qualifie un style touffu, difficile à comprendre.
- 4Qualifiait un officier supérieur, général ou maréchal, dont les galons étaient de feuilles de chêne.
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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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Using “feuillu”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is F-E-U-I-L-L-U - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \fœ.jy\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.