Foucauld
\fu.ko\
The verdict
“Foucauld” is uncommon French (frequency #61,538 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,538
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille, variante de Foucault.
Corpus desk
Index FR-foucauld · Foucauld · French
Foucauld · rank #61,538 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,538
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH Foucart
Nearest frequency peer: Foucart (-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 « Foucauld »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fonctionnem…
fonctionnements
38,466 corpus weight
- forgées
forgées
38,465 corpus weight
- Foucart
Foucart
38,464 corpus weight
- Foucauld
Foucauld
38,463 corpus weight
- fouillées
fouillées
38,462 corpus weight
- Fouras
Fouras
38,461 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Foucauld » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Foucauld |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \fu.ko\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #61,538 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Foucauld » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Foucauld is uncommon French at frequency #61,538 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \fu.ko\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille, variante de Foucault.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Foucauld, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Foucauld, spelled F-O-U-C-A-U-L-D.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille, variante de Foucault.
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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