folichon
\fɔ.li.ʃɔ̃\
The verdict
“folichon” is uncommon French (frequency #65,951 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,951
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est léger ; qui côtoie l’inconvenance.
Corpus desk
Index FR-folichon · folichon · French
folichon · rank #65,951 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,951
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH foisonnant
Nearest frequency peer: foisonnant (-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 « folichon »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- flatteries
flatteries
34,053 corpus weight
- fluctuante
fluctuante
34,052 corpus weight
- foisonnant
foisonnant
34,051 corpus weight
- folichon
folichon
34,050 corpus weight
- forgeant
forgeant
34,049 corpus weight
- fourragères
fourragères
34,047 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « folichon » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | folichon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fɔ.li.ʃɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #65,951 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « folichon » en français
Rare enough to double-check
folichon is uncommon French at frequency #65,951 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \fɔ.li.ʃɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for folichon, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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. The correct French form is folichon, spelled F-O-L-I-C-H-O-N.
Definition
- 1Qui est léger ; qui côtoie l’inconvenance.
- 2(Surtout dans une tournure négative) Joyeux, qui inspire la gaité. La litote pas folichon signifie donc fort triste, déprimant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how folichon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— Comment une femme si gaie pourrait-elle être dépravée ? Folichonne, oui ! mais perverse... allons donc !
— Ah ! ah ! ah ! Et la troupe folichonne de s’esclaffer.
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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