folie
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,197
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
folie is aFrenchnoun. It means: Dérangement de l’esprit, accès de folie. Pronounced \fɔ.li\. It ranks #3,197 in French word frequency. Often confused with folk and foll.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | folie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɔ.li\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #3,197 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for folie is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fɔ.li\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,197 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for folie, with forms such as "ffolie", "floie", and "foile". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "folk", "foll", "forme", 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 folie, spelled F-O-L-I-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Dérangement de l’esprit, accès de folie.
- 2Lésion plus ou moins complète et ordinairement de longue durée des facultés intellectuelles et affectives, sans trouble notable dans les sensations et les mouvements volontaires, et sans désordre grave ou même apparent des fonctions nutritives et génératrices.
- 3Absence de raison, extravagance, manque de jugement.
- 4Action folle, idée folle.
- 5Gaieté vive dans laquelle on fait ou dit des choses propres à divertir.
- 6La Folie, personnage fictif qu’on représente sous la figure d’une femme joyeuse avec une marotte et des grelots.
- 7Joyeusetés en paroles ou en actions.
- 8Caricature, charge plaisante.
- 9Goût exclusif, passionné, idée en laquelle on se complaît.
- 10Accointance charnelle.
- 11En chaleur, en parlant des animaux.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ffolie,floie,foile,folei,follie,oflie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for folie
Misspelling Variants of "folie"
Frequency rank: #3,197 in French
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Nearby French words
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