fouettez
\fwe.te\
The verdict
“fouettez” is uncommon French (frequency #82,964 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,964
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de fouetter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fouettez · fouettez · French
fouettez · rank #82,964 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,964
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH formaliste
Nearest frequency peer: formaliste (-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 « fouettez »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- flottage
flottage
17,043 corpus weight
- Fontan
Fontan
17,039 corpus weight
- formaliste
formaliste
17,038 corpus weight
- fouettez
fouettez
17,037 corpus weight
- franchisse
franchisse
17,033 corpus weight
- frogs
frogs
17,032 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fouettez » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « fouettez » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fouettez is uncommon French at frequency #82,964 among 3,276 “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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fouettez appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Fouettez les jaunes d’œuf avec 10 g de cassonade pour les blanchir.
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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