filouterie
French, noun/fi.lu.tʁi/
filouterie is spelled F-I-L-O-U-T-E-R-I-E (10 letters) and appears about once in every 12 million words in written French, the 114,550th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Filouterie is a French feminine noun meaning “knavery” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Acte de filou”.
What does filouterie mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineknavery
- 2
femininefraud
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Acte de filou. 2. Fait pour une personne qui ne peut ou ne veut pas payer de se faire servir ou attribuer des choses qui ne seront pas payées.
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 filouterie
- filouteries plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce filouterie?
- /fi.lu.tʁi/
- \fi.lut.ʁi\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is filouterie in French?
filouterie appears about once in every 12 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).