fofolle
\fɔ.fɔl\
The verdict
“fofolle” is uncommon French (frequency #78,432 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,432
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de foufou.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fofolle · fofolle · French
fofolle · rank #78,432 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,432
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fixaient
Nearest frequency peer: fixaient (-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 « fofolle »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- filin
filin
21,572 corpus weight
- filosofia
filosofia
21,571 corpus weight
- fixaient
fixaient
21,570 corpus weight
- fofolle
fofolle
21,569 corpus weight
- forcenés
forcenés
21,568 corpus weight
- Forester
Forester
21,566 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fofolle » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fofolle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fɔ.fɔl\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #78,432 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fofolle » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fofolle is uncommon French at frequency #78,432 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \fɔ.fɔl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de foufou.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for fofolle, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 fofolle, spelled F-O-F-O-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de foufou.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fofolle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans Et l’amour dans tout ça, de Shekhar Kapur, Emma Thompson incarne la maman un peu fofolle d’une documentariste jouée par Lily James.
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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