fouet

/\fwɛ\/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#9,837

in French word usage

Misspellings

5

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

fouet is aFrenchnoun. It means: Cordelette de chanvre ou de cuir, qui est attachée à une baguette, à un bâton, et dont on se sert pour conduire et pour châtier les chevaux et autres animaux, voire, dans certains pays ou à certain... Pronounced \fwɛ\. It ranks #9,837 in French word frequency. Often confused with fût and fous.

Key facts for fouet
PropertyValue
Headwordfouet
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\fwɛ\
Letters5
Frequency rank#9,837
Misspellings tracked5
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of fouet in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for fouet is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fwɛ\. Corpus data places it at rank #9,837 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 15 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for fouet, with forms such as "ffouet", "foeut", and "fouett". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "fût", "fous", "fout", 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 fouet, spelled F-O-U-E-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Cordelette de chanvre ou de cuir, qui est attachée à une baguette, à un bâton, et dont on se sert pour conduire et pour châtier les chevaux et autres animaux, voire, dans certains pays ou à certaines époques, pour punir une personne condamnée.
  2. 2
    Cordelette serrée qui sert de mèche au fouet des cochers et les charretiers.
  3. 3
    Coups de verges, de lanières ou de corde à nœuds destinés à châtier un criminel.
  4. 4
    Violente secousse ou coup cinglant qui rappelle l’effet douloureux d’un coup de fouet.
  5. 5
    Corde ; longueur de mât.
  6. 6
    Lanière de cuir ou de peau d’anguille qui est attachée au bout d’un petit bâton et qui sert aux enfants pour faire tourner un sabot.
  7. 7
    Bout de l’aile d’un oiseau.
  8. 8
    Queue du chien.
  9. 9
    Ustensile de cuisine, constitué de tiges souples repliées sur elles-mêmes, destiné à mélanger, ou à homogénéiser une préparation.
  10. 10
    Jeune congre (poisson).
  11. 11
    Ouvrier de verrerie qui arrangeait les bouteilles dans le four.
  12. 12
    Synonyme de canne à mouche.
  13. 13
    Instrument à percussion composé de deux planchettes de bois que l’on claque l’une contre l’autre.
  14. 14
    Carillon médiéval composé d’un ensemble de clochettes attachée sur une tige métallique que l'on agitait.
  15. 15
    Couleuvre verte et jaune, nommée aussi cinglard. Son appellation binomiale est : Hierophis viridiflavus.

Synonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ffouet,foeut,fouett,fuoet,ofuet

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for fouet

Misspelling Variants of "fouet"

ffouet6foeut5fouett6fuoet5ofuet5
Misspelling Variants of "fouet"

Frequency rank: #9,837 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "fouet"?
"fouet" is spelled F-O-U-E-T. The IPA pronunciation is \fwɛ\.
What does "fouet" mean?
As a noun, "fouet" means: Cordelette de chanvre ou de cuir, qui est attachée à une baguette, à un bâton, et dont on se sert pour conduire et pour châtier les chevaux et autres animaux, voire, dans certains pays ou à certain...
What words are commonly confused with "fouet"?
"fouet" is commonly confused with "fût", "fous", "fout". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "fouet"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "fouet" is \fwɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "fouet" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.