foisonner
\fwa.zɔ.ne\
The verdict
“foisonner” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Être en très grande abondance, ou abonder en telle ou telle chose.
Corpus desk
Index FR-foisonner · foisonner · French
foisonner · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 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 | foisonner |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fwa.zɔ.ne\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
foisonner is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \fwa.zɔ.ne\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for foisonner in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is foisonner, spelled F-O-I-S-O-N-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1Être en très grande abondance, ou abonder en telle ou telle chose.
- 2Se multiplier, en parlant de certains animaux.
- 3Augmenter de volume, en parlant de terre, de sable ou de tout autre matériaux, sous l’effet d'un décompactage, d'un mouillage ou d'une autre action.
- 4Introduire de fines bulles d’air à l’intérieur d'une substance solide afin de l’alléger, d’en réduire la densité ou d’abaisser sa compacité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how foisonner appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’or et la fourrure foisonnaient dans ses vêtements.
Le gibier proprement dit, -[…]- ne foisonnait pas dans ces parages.
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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.