foule
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,616
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
foule is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action de fouler les draps. On dit plutôt foulage de nos jours. Pronounced \ful\. It ranks #2,616 in French word frequency. Often confused with fous and fout.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | foule |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ful\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #2,616 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for foule is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ful\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,616 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for foule, with forms such as "ffoule", "folue", and "fouel". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "fous", "fout", "four", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is foule, spelled F-O-U-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Action de fouler les draps. On dit plutôt foulage de nos jours.
- 2Action de fouler les draps. On dit plutôt foulage de nos jours.
- 3Atelier de foulage.
- 4Dans un métier à tisser, espace entre les deux nappes de la chaîne, où l’on fait passer le fil de trame. On dit aussi marchure.
- 5Longue perche pour pousser la ralingue du vent afin d’ouvrir les voiles le plus possible.
- 6Sorte de pêche dans laquelle, foulant du pied le fond des rivières, ou de la mer, quand la marée est basse, on pique avec une sorte de fourche le poisson que l’on rencontre enfoui dans le sable ou la vase.
- 7Ce qui foule les hommes : oppression, vexation.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ffoule,folue,fouel,foulle,fuole,ofule
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for foule
Misspelling Variants of "foule"
Frequency rank: #2,616 in French
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