foliaire
\fɔ.ljɛʁ\
The verdict
“foliaire” is uncommon French (frequency #73,170 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,170
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif aux feuilles.
Corpus desk
Index FR-foliaire · foliaire · French
foliaire · rank #73,170 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,170
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH finder
Nearest frequency peer: finder (-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 « foliaire »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- festa
festa
26,835 corpus weight
- finder
finder
26,832 corpus weight
- foliaire
foliaire
26,831 corpus weight
- fortuites
fortuites
26,829 corpus weight
- fractionnée
fractionnée
26,828 corpus weight
- Francilienn…
Franciliennes
26,827 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « foliaire » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | foliaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fɔ.ljɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #73,170 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « foliaire » en français
Rare enough to double-check
foliaire is uncommon French at frequency #73,170 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \fɔ.ljɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Relatif aux feuilles.".
foliaire doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is foliaire, spelled F-O-L-I-A-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Relatif aux feuilles.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how foliaire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Comment expliquer les effets toxiques constatés sur le rhizome après les applications foliaires d’amitrole ?
Nous avons disposé de DNTBP et de DNOC uniformément marqués au ¹⁴C sur le noyau benzénique. La pénétration foliaire et racinaire, ainsi que la translocation du DNTBP sont lentes.
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); 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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