fielleux
French, adjective\fjɛ.lø\
fielleux is spelled F-I-E-L-L-E-U-X (8 letters) and appears about once in every 16 million words in written French, the 130,697th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fielleux is a French adjective meaning “venomous, bileful, spiteful, scurrilous” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qui a du fiel, de la méchanceté”.
What does fielleux mean in English?
adjective
- 1
venomous, bileful, spiteful, scurrilous
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui a du fiel, de la méchanceté.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of fielleux
- fielleuse feminine
- fielleuses feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce fielleux?
- \fjɛ.lø\
- \fje.lø\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is fielleux in French?
fielleux appears about once in every 16 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).