follet
\fɔ.lɛ\
The verdict
“follet” is uncommon French (frequency #57,959 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,959
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui fait ou dit par habitude de petites folies.
Corpus desk
Index FR-follet · follet · French
follet · rank #57,959 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,959
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH forfaiture
Nearest frequency peer: forfaiture (+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 « follet »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fanfaron
fanfaron
42,048 corpus weight
- figureront
figureront
42,044 corpus weight
- follet
follet
42,042 corpus weight
- forfaiture
forfaiture
42,041 corpus weight
- fossoyeurs
fossoyeurs
42,040 corpus weight
- fragmentaire
fragmentaire
42,039 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « follet » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | follet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fɔ.lɛ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #57,959 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « follet » en français
Rare enough to double-check
follet is uncommon French at frequency #57,959 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \fɔ.lɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for follet, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is follet, spelled F-O-L-L-E-T.
Definition
- 1Qui fait ou dit par habitude de petites folies.
- 2Qui voltige de côté et d’autre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how follet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un esprit follet,
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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