fiou
\fju\
The verdict
“fiou” is uncommon French (frequency #87,641 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,641
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Expression de soulagement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fiou · fiou · French
fiou · rank #87,641 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,641
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fignoler
Nearest frequency peer: fignoler (-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 « fiou »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fere
fere
12,364 corpus weight
- feuilletage
feuilletage
12,363 corpus weight
- fichtrement
fichtrement
12,362 corpus weight
- fignoler
fignoler
12,361 corpus weight
- fiou
fiou
12,360 corpus weight
- flamenca
flamenca
12,358 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fiou » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fiou |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | \fju\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #87,641 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fiou » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fiou is uncommon French at frequency #87,641 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as aninterjection, transcribed \fju\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Expression de soulagement.".
fiou doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 fiou, spelled F-I-O-U.
Definition
- 1Expression de soulagement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fiou appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Fiou ! Ça va mieux maintenant !
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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