foll
\ˈfɔlː\
The verdict
“foll” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #35,043) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #35,043
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 3
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fou.
Corpus desk
Index FR-foll · foll · French
foll · rank #35,043 · 3 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,043
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 3 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH flower
Nearest frequency peer: flower (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « foll »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- flingues
flingues
64,961 corpus weight
- flower
flower
64,959 corpus weight
- foll
foll
64,958 corpus weight
- formera
formera
64,957 corpus weight
- formeront
formeront
64,956 corpus weight
- fortifier
fortifier
64,955 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « foll » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | foll |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈfɔlː\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #35,043 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « foll »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for foll is neighbouring look-alikes ("fou", "for", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced \ˈfɔlː\. Frequency #35,043 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Gloss: "Fou.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for foll, with forms such as "ffoll", "flol", and "ofll". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "fou", "for", "fox", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is foll, spelled F-O-L-L.
Definition
- 1Fou.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how foll appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
An hini zo foll ez yaouank, Evit koshaat ne fura tamm.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffoll
- flol
- ofll
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of foll - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).