fouillette
\fu.jɛt\
The verdict
“fouillette” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Poche, petite poche.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fouillette · fouillette · French
fouillette · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "F" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fouillette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fu.jɛt\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fouillette » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fouillette is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \fu.jɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Poche, petite poche.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for fouillette, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is fouillette, spelled F-O-U-I-L-L-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Poche, petite poche.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fouillette appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il contrôle tout d’abord, prudent, la somme convenue, qu’il fait disparaître dans une fouillette.
Il était fringé⁽ˢⁱᶜ⁾ neuf, avait presque un bâton entier dans sa fouillette et l’avenir ne le tracassait pas...
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.