fool
The verdict
“fool” is uncommon French (frequency #62,287 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,287
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dessert à base de fruits et de crème.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fool · fool · French
fool · rank #62,287 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,287
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH Fogiel
Nearest frequency peer: Fogiel (-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 « fool »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Florentino
Florentino
37,717 corpus weight
- Floriane
Floriane
37,716 corpus weight
- Fogiel
Fogiel
37,715 corpus weight
- fool
fool
37,714 corpus weight
- formalisée
formalisée
37,713 corpus weight
- fragilisées
fragilisées
37,712 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fool » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fool |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #62,287 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fool » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fool is uncommon French at frequency #62,287 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Dessert à base de fruits et de crème.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for fool, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 fool, spelled F-O-O-L.
Definition
- 1Dessert à base de fruits et de crème.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fool appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Fool à la rhubarbe et au gingembre
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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