follows
\ˈfɒl.əʊz\
The verdict
“follows” is uncommon French (frequency #79,324 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,324
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe follow.
Corpus desk
Index FR-follows · follows · French
follows · rank #79,324 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,324
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH float
Nearest frequency peer: float (-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 « follows »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fleurisseme…
fleurissement
20,680 corpus weight
- flippent
flippent
20,679 corpus weight
- float
float
20,678 corpus weight
- follows
follows
20,677 corpus weight
- footix
footix
20,676 corpus weight
- forniquer
forniquer
20,675 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « follows » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | follows |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈfɒl.əʊz\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #79,324 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « follows » en français
Rare enough to double-check
follows is uncommon French at frequency #79,324 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ˈfɒl.əʊz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe follow.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for follows, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is follows, spelled F-O-L-L-O-W-S.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe follow.
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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