fou
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,063
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
fou is anFrenchadj. It means: Qualifie une personne qui a perdu la raison, qui est atteinte d’aliénation mentale. Pronounced \fu\. It ranks #1,063 in French word frequency. Often confused with ft and Fs.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fou |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \fu\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #1,063 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for fou is 3 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fu\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,063 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 12 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for fou in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ft", "Fs", "FP", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is fou, spelled F-O-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qualifie une personne qui a perdu la raison, qui est atteinte d’aliénation mentale.
- 2Qualifie une personne qui perd patience par les choses qu’on lui a dites, qu’on lui a faites mal à propos.
- 3Qualifie une personne qui fait ou qui dit des extravagances, qui commet toutes sortes de maladresses.
- 4Qualifie tout ce qui est contraire à la raison, à la prudence, à la modération.
- 5Qualifie une personne hors d’elle, passionnée.
- 6Qualifie quelque chose de stupide.
- 7Qualifie quelque chose de surprenant.
- 8Qualifie quelque chose d’exagéré, de démesuré, d’énorme.
- 9Qualifie un mécanisme dérangé.
- 10Qualifie une roue, une poulie, un tambour etc. ne transmettant pas de force motrice et tournant librement autour de son axe.
- 11Extrêmement gai, badin, enjoué.
- 12Qui manque d’ordre, qui suit un comportement apparemment capricieux.
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Frequency rank: #1,063 in French
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