folia
The verdict
“folia” is uncommon French (frequency #99,098 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,098
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Folie, étourderie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-folia · folia · French
folia · rank #99,098 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,098
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH flammèches
Nearest frequency peer: flammèches (-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 « folia »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- finançons
finançons
908 corpus weight
- flammèches
flammèches
904 corpus weight
- folia
folia
903 corpus weight
- fonctionnal…
fonctionnalisme
902 corpus weight
- fonctionnal…
fonctionnaliste
901 corpus weight
- forgot
forgot
899 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « folia » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | folia |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #99,098 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « folia » en français
Rare enough to double-check
folia is uncommon French at frequency #99,098 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for folia in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is folia, spelled F-O-L-I-A.
Definition
- 1Folie, étourderie.
- 2Excès, dérèglement.
- 3Débauchage, dévergondage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how folia appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Peire, lo dormir e.l sojorn am mais que.l rossinhol auvir; ni ja tan no.m sabriatz dir que mais en la folia torn. Deu lau, fors sui de chadena, e vos e tuih l’autr’ amador etz remazut en la folor.
Synonyms
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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