fouillait
\fu.jɛ\
The verdict
“fouillait” is uncommon French (frequency #76,590 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,590
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de fouiller.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fouillait · fouillait · French
fouillait · rank #76,590 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,590
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH Fouesnant
Nearest frequency peer: Fouesnant (-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 « fouillait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- focales
focales
23,415 corpus weight
- foudroyer
foudroyer
23,413 corpus weight
- Fouesnant
Fouesnant
23,412 corpus weight
- fouillait
fouillait
23,411 corpus weight
- fracassantes
fracassantes
23,409 corpus weight
- fretin
fretin
23,408 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fouillait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fouillait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fu.jɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #76,590 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fouillait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fouillait is uncommon French at frequency #76,590 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \fu.jɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de fouiller.".
No misspelling variants are generated for fouillait in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is fouillait, spelled F-O-U-I-L-L-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de fouiller.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fouillait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Devant chez Macqueron, l’idée lui vint de boire un verre ; mais il se fouillait, il n’avait pas un sou, la honte le prit de se montrer, dans la peur qu’on ne connût déjà l’histoire.
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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