foirolle
\fwa.ʁɔl\
The verdict
“foirolle” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom vernaculaire de la mercuriale annuelle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-foirolle · foirolle · French
foirolle · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "F" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | foirolle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fwa.ʁɔl\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « foirolle » en français
Rare enough to double-check
foirolle is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \fwa.ʁɔl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom vernaculaire de la mercuriale annuelle.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for foirolle, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 foirolle, spelled F-O-I-R-O-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Nom vernaculaire de la mercuriale annuelle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how foirolle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cette plante est commune dans tous les lieux cultivés. Elle est émolliente et laxative: elle est connue sous les noms de mercuriale , foirole, vignoble, vignette , etc.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.