fouillis
\fu.ji\
The verdict
“fouillis” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #43,950. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,950
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Entassement d'éléments disparates, pêle-mêle, juxtaposés par hasard, ou sans ordre, sans cohérence, sans méthode, sans intention clairement définie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fouillis · fouillis · French
fouillis · rank #43,950 · 9 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,950
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fortress
Nearest frequency peer: fortress (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « fouillis »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- flashbacks
flashbacks
56,054 corpus weight
- florales
florales
56,053 corpus weight
- fortress
fortress
56,052 corpus weight
- fouillis
fouillis
56,051 corpus weight
- fracasse
fracasse
56,050 corpus weight
- frondeur
frondeur
56,048 corpus weight
What this shows « fouillis » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fouillis |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fu.ji\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #43,950 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « fouillis »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around fouillis (IPA \fu.ji\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #43,950 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for fouillis, with forms such as "ffouillis", "foiullis", and "fouilils". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "fouille", "feuilles", "fouilles", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is fouillis, spelled F-O-U-I-L-L-I-S.
Definition
- 1Entassement d'éléments disparates, pêle-mêle, juxtaposés par hasard, ou sans ordre, sans cohérence, sans méthode, sans intention clairement définie.
- 2Motif imprimé, aléatoire, qui ne se répète pas, sur un tissu.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fouillis appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Seule, la haute banquise, étrangement profilée, découpant sur le ciel ses cônes, ses ballons, ses crêtes fantaisistes, ses pics aigus, se tenait solidement, et encadrait superbement ce fouillis pittoresque.
Mais avec la nuit, le grand silence, cette lune d’hiver qui, dans le fouillis des toits compliqués, jette et entremêle des ombres, l’antique maison des Nesmond reprend ses allures seigneuriales.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffouillis
- foiullis
- fouilils
- fouilis
- fouilliss
- fouillsi
- foulilis
- fuoillis
- ofuillis
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fouillis - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).