foufou
French, noun/fu.fu/
foufou is spelled F-O-U-F-O-U (6 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 51,352nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Foufou is a French masculine noun meaning “fufu” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Celui qui se comporte de façon espiègle, écervelé, tout fou (affectif)”.
What does foufou mean in English?
adjective
- 1
informalnutty, scatty, dippy
noun
- 1
masculinefufu
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Espiègle, écervelé, tout fou (affectif).
noun: 1. Celui qui se comporte de façon espiègle, écervelé, tout fou (affectif).
noun: 1. Pâte comestible, solide ou molle, réalisée à partir d’ignames bouillies et pilés, de farine de maïs, de manioc ou de banane plantain, commun en Afrique centrale et en Afrique de l’Ouest.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of foufou
- fofolle feminine
- foufous masculine plural
- fofolles feminine plural
- fou-fou
- fifou
- fufu
- foutou
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce foufou?
- /fu.fu/
- \fu.fu\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is foufou in French?
foufou appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).