folios
\fɔ.ljo\
The verdict
“folios” is uncommon French (frequency #60,798 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,798
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de folio.
Corpus desk
Index FR-folios · folios · French
folios · rank #60,798 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,798
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH foisonnante
Nearest frequency peer: foisonnante (-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 « folios »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- flancher
flancher
39,206 corpus weight
- flashes
flashes
39,205 corpus weight
- foisonnante
foisonnante
39,204 corpus weight
- folios
folios
39,203 corpus weight
- fora
fora
39,201 corpus weight
- formulent
formulent
39,200 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « folios » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | folios |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɔ.ljo\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #60,798 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « folios » en français
Rare enough to double-check
folios is uncommon French at frequency #60,798 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fɔ.ljo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de folio.".
folios has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is folios, spelled F-O-L-I-O-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de folio.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how folios appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La production hagiographique de la période moderne offre un florilège de textes longs (plusieurs centaines de pages) ou courts (de deux à quelques dizaines de folios), en prose ou en vers, portant sur des saints espagnols ou italiens.
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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