footeux
\fu.tø\
The verdict
“footeux” is uncommon French (frequency #52,699 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,699
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Passionné de football.
Corpus desk
Index FR-footeux · footeux · French
footeux · rank #52,699 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,699
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fluorescent
Nearest frequency peer: fluorescent (-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 « footeux »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- flotteurs
flotteurs
47,304 corpus weight
- fluorescent
fluorescent
47,303 corpus weight
- footeux
footeux
47,302 corpus weight
- fragmentée
fragmentée
47,301 corpus weight
- francilienne
francilienne
47,300 corpus weight
- francisque
francisque
47,299 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « footeux » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | footeux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fu.tø\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #52,699 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « footeux » en français
Rare enough to double-check
footeux is uncommon French at frequency #52,699 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fu.tø\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for footeux, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is footeux, spelled F-O-O-T-E-U-X.
Definition
- 1Passionné de football.
- 2Joueur de football.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how footeux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mieux, pour venger illico ce dernier, une colombe de la paix peut lâcher une rafale de généreux guanos bien calibrés (et qui sentent bon leur terroir campagnard) sur un entier Stade de France overbooké de footeux braillards ! C'est que les zozios – comme l'écrit l'ami poète, Jacques Demarcq ! –, les zozios, rien ne peut les arrêter !
Mais à la différence des footeux, les geocacheurs s'amusent entre eux et dans l'anonymat le plus complet.
This word in other languages
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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