fouine
French, noun
fouine is spelled F-O-U-I-N-E (6 letters) and appears 1.3 times per million words in written French, the 26,653rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fouine is a French feminine noun meaning “beech marten” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of fouiner. With an accent, fouiné is a different word: “past participle of fouiner”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Espèce de mammifère carnassier, de la famille des mustélidés (cf. martre, furet, putois) au corps mince et au…”.
What does fouine mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininebeech marten
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
past participle of fouiner
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Espèce de mammifère carnassier, de la famille des mustélidés (cf. martre, furet, putois) au corps mince et au museau allongé. 2. Par rapprochement avec le comportement associé à l’animal, homme rusé, indiscret, malin, qui se mêle de ce qui ne le regarde pas et en profite. 3. Boute-hache.
noun: 1. Variante de foëne.
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.
Forms of fouine
- fouines plural
- fouinée feminine
- fouinés masculine plural
- fouinées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to fouine
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is fouine in French?
fouine appears 1.3 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).