fou rire
\fu ʁiʁ\
The verdict
“fou rire” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Grand éclat de rire difficile à réfréner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fou-rire · fou rire · French
fou rire · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "F" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fou rire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fu ʁiʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fou rire » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fou rire is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \fu ʁiʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Grand éclat de rire difficile à réfréner.".
fou rire doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is fou rire, spelled F-O-U- -R-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Grand éclat de rire difficile à réfréner.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fou rire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Son « tu » me froissa un peu. Mais je lui répondis gaminement : « Tu trouves que j'ai engraissé ! » Il partit d'un fou rire. Et, à partir de ce jour, nous nous tutoyâmes et nous devînmes les meilleurs amis du monde.
Nous évoquâmes d’Esparbès, puis je ne sais plus pourquoi le fou rire nous prit, un de ces fous rires libérateurs qui sont comme une purge enivrante et salutaire.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.