foufoune
\fu.fun\
The verdict
“foufoune” is uncommon French (frequency #67,525 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,525
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ou Fesse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-foufoune · foufoune · French
foufoune · rank #67,525 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,525
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH formerait
Nearest frequency peer: formerait (-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 « foufoune »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- flouter
flouter
32,479 corpus weight
- Fontvieille
Fontvieille
32,478 corpus weight
- formerait
formerait
32,477 corpus weight
- foufoune
foufoune
32,476 corpus weight
- foutra
foutra
32,475 corpus weight
- frappantes
frappantes
32,474 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « foufoune » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | foufoune |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fu.fun\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #67,525 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « foufoune » en français
Rare enough to double-check
foufoune is uncommon French at frequency #67,525 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fu.fun\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for foufoune in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is foufoune, spelled F-O-U-F-O-U-N-E.
Definition
- 1ou Fesse.
- 2ou Pubis.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how foufoune appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
De l’autre, elle se dandine les foufounes et se comporte comme une entraîneuse !
Un cheval en bois c’est dur pour les foufounes !
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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