feuillu
\fœ.jy\
The verdict
“feuillu” is uncommon French (frequency #90,723 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,723
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui possède beaucoup de feuilles.
Corpus desk
Index FR-feuillu · feuillu · French
feuillu · rank #90,723 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,723
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH festus
Nearest frequency peer: festus (-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 « feuillu »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- feo
feo
9,281 corpus weight
- fermerais
fermerais
9,280 corpus weight
- festus
festus
9,279 corpus weight
- feuillu
feuillu
9,278 corpus weight
- Fezzan
Fezzan
9,277 corpus weight
- fiait
fiait
9,276 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « feuillu » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « feuillu » en français
Rare enough to double-check
feuillu is uncommon French at frequency #90,723 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \fœ.jy\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how feuillu appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un cerisier feuillu.
Tige bien feuillue.
Synonyms
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.
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