foulage
\fu.laʒ\
The verdict
“foulage” is uncommon French (frequency #99,105 among 137,178 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,105
- frequency rank, French
- 137,178
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Action de fouler ou résultat de cette action.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | foulage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fu.laʒ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #99,105 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “foulage” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
foulage is uncommon French at frequency #99,105 among 137,178 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fu.laʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 7 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for foulage in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is foulage, spelled F-O-U-L-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Action de fouler ou résultat de cette action.
- 2Action de fouler ou résultat de cette action.
- 3Piétinement, dans un fouloir, des raisins pour en extraire le jus.
- 4Piétinement, dans un fouloir, des raisins pour en extraire le jus.
- 5Action de tasser le sol après semis par piétinement, marchage.
- 6Action d'une presse ou du cylindre d'une rotative sur une feuille de papier pour en assurer l'impression.
- 7Empreinte en relief, laissée par exemple sur les pages d’un carnet après avoir écrit sur la première page.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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Using “foulage”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is F-O-U-L-A-G-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \fu.laʒ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.