folâtre
\fɔ.latʁ\
The verdict
“folâtre” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui aime à badiner, à jouer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-folatre · folâtre · French
folâtre · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 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 | folâtre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fɔ.latʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « folâtre » en français
Rare enough to double-check
folâtre is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \fɔ.latʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui aime à badiner, à jouer.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for folâtre, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 folâtre, spelled F-O-L-Â-T-R-E.
Definition
- 1Qui aime à badiner, à jouer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how folâtre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On ne pouvait rien voir de plus gracieux que cette svelte blondine, jeune, gaie, folâtre ; pas un homme qui eût résisté à ses agaceries.
À une petite distance de la bicoque de Dieu le père, le Pape-Dieu rencontra une troupe folâtre de femmes et de jeunes filles, parées d’étoffes voyantes et bigarrées.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.