fool
The verdict
“fool” is an uncommon French word, ranked #62,287 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #62,287
- frequency rank, French
- 4
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Dessert à base de fruits et de crème.
| 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) |
Where “fool” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for fool is 4 letters long, classified as a noun. Corpus data places it at rank #62,287 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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.
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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Using “fool”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is F-O-O-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.