fouettez
\fwe.te\
The verdict
“fouettez” is uncommon French (frequency #82,964 among 137,178 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,964
- frequency rank, French
- 137,178
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de fouetter.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fouettez |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fwe.te\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #82,964 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “fouettez” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
fouettez is uncommon French at frequency #82,964 among 137,178 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \fwe.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for fouettez in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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 fouettez, spelled F-O-U-E-T-T-E-Z.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de fouetter.
- 2Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’impératif de fouetter.
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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Using “fouettez”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is F-O-U-E-T-T-E-Z - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \fwe.te\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.