fou à lier
\fu a lje\
The verdict
“fou à lier” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an adjective - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Complètement fou ; extrêmement déraisonnable.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fou à lier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fu a lje\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “fou à lier” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for fou à lier is 10 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fu a lje\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Complètement fou ; extrêmement déraisonnable.".
fou à lier doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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 fou à lier, spelled F-O-U- -À- -L-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Complètement fou ; extrêmement déraisonnable.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “fou à lier”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is F-O-U- -À- -L-I-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \fu a lje\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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.