fouillis
French, noun/fu.ji/
fouillis is spelled F-O-U-I-L-L-I-S (8 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 43,844th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fouillis is a French masculine noun meaning “mess, confusion, jumble” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Entassement d'éléments disparates, pêle-mêle, juxtaposés par hasard, ou sans ordre, sans cohérence, sans…”.
What does fouillis mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinemess, confusion, jumble
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Entassement d'éléments disparates, pêle-mêle, juxtaposés par hasard, ou sans ordre, sans cohérence, sans méthode, sans intention clairement définie. 2. Motif imprimé, aléatoire, qui ne se répète pas, sur un tissu.
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.
How do you pronounce fouillis?
- /fu.ji/
- \fu.ji\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to fouillis
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is fouillis in French?
fouillis 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).