fol
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#23,215
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
fol is anFrenchadj. It means: Masculin singulier de fou lorsque le substantif qui suit dans la phrase commence par une voyelle ou un h muet. Pronounced \fɔl\. Often confused with ft and Fs.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fol |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \fɔl\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #23,215 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for fol is 3 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fɔl\. Corpus data places it at rank #23,215 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for fol in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ft", "Fs", "FP", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is fol, spelled F-O-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Masculin singulier de fou lorsque le substantif qui suit dans la phrase commence par une voyelle ou un h muet.
- 2Neutre singulier de fou.
Frequency rank: #23,215 in French
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