fool

noun

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

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fool » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for fool
PropertyValue
Headwordfool
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
Letters4
Frequency rank#62,287
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « fool » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).fooltombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « Fogiel » (#62,286), « formalisée » (#62,288), « Floriane » (#62,285). Parmi 3,276 lemmes en « F », « fool » est au #62,287. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Dessert à base de fruits et de crème.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how fool appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "fool"?
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What does "fool" mean?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "fool", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list