foulard

\fu.laʁ\

/\fu.laʁ\/ noun

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The verdict

“foulard” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,043. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#14,043
frequency rank, French
3,276
“F” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
4
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Étoffe de soie, de soie et coton ou de fibres artificielles, très légère et dont on fait des mouchoirs, des cravates, des fichus, des robes, etc.

Corpus desk

Index FR-foulard · foulard · French

foulard · rank #14,043 · 10 variants · 4 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #14,043
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,276
  • PHOTO-FINISH formel

Nearest frequency peer: formel (-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 « foulard »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « foulard » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

foulard vs fouler
71% similar
foulard vs foulards
88% similar
foulard vs Fouad
57% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for foulard
PropertyValue
Headwordfoulard
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\fu.laʁ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#14,043
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « foulard »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).foulardse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « formel » (#14,042), « fournissant » (#14,044), « fondatrice » (#14,041). Parmi 3,276 lemmes en « F », « foulard » est au #14,043. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around foulard (IPA \fu.laʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #14,043 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for foulard, with forms such as "ffoulard", "foluard", and "foualrd". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "fouler", "foulards", "Fouad", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is foulard, spelled F-O-U-L-A-R-D.

Definition

  1. 1
    Étoffe de soie, de soie et coton ou de fibres artificielles, très légère et dont on fait des mouchoirs, des cravates, des fichus, des robes, etc.
  2. 2
    Pièce d’étoffe servant de mouchoir, de cache-col, d’écharpe ou de fichu.
  3. 3
    Foulard islamique, hidjab, porté sur la tête et couvrant souvent la totalité des cheveux.
  4. 4
    Machine servant à encoller des étoffes avec de l’apprêt ou d’autres substances.
  5. 5
    Acalypha, queue de chat.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how foulard appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Foulard des Indes. — Un mouchoir de foulard. — Une robe de foulard.
  2. Denise ne portait que les quelques mètres de foulard, achetés par madame Desforges.

Synonyms

taffetasmadrascache-colcache-nezécharpefichufoulard islamiquehidjab

This word in other languages

handkerchief(English)Halstuch(Deutsch)lenço(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ffoulard
  • foluard
  • foualrd
  • fouladr
  • foulardd
  • foularrd
  • foullard
  • foulrad
  • fuolard
  • ofulard

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of foulard - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

ffoulard1foluard2foualrd2fouladr2foulardd1foularrd1foullard1foulrad2
Edit distance from "foulard"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "foulard"?
"foulard" is spelled F-O-U-L-A-R-D. The IPA pronunciation is \fu.laʁ\.
What does "foulard" mean?
As a noun, "foulard" means: Étoffe de soie, de soie et coton ou de fibres artificielles, très légère et dont on fait des mouchoirs, des cravates, des fichus, des robes, etc.
What words are commonly confused with "foulard"?
"foulard" is commonly confused with "fouler", "foulards", "Fouad". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "foulard"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "foulard" is \fu.laʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "foulard" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "foulard", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

feeling#14,039grottes#14,048exactes#14,034envoler#14,033

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

gâchis10 variantsillégaux10 variantsEmmanuelle10 variantsdouches10 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list