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foule

French, noun

foule is spelled F-O-U-L-E (5 letters) and appears 31 times per million words in written French, the 2,619th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Foule is a French feminine noun meaning “crowd” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of fouler. With an accent, foulé is a different word: “sprained; twisted”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action de fouler les draps, foulage”.

What does foule mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    femininecrowd

    Les psychologues sociaux ont développé plusieurs théories afin d'expliquer la façon dont la psychologie d'une foule diffère et interagit avec celle des individus en son sein.

  2. 2

    femininethe thronging of a crowd

  3. 3

    femininea great number, multitude, mass; host

noun

  1. 1

    femininethe act or process of treading or milling

  2. 2

    feminineoppression, vexation

verb

  1. 1

    first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive

  2. 2

    second-person singular imperative

adjective

as foulé
  1. 1

    sprained; twisted

verb

as foulé
  1. 1

    past participle of fouler

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Action de fouler les draps, foulage. 2. Opération par laquelle on foule les feutres dans une cuve pleine de liquide. 3. Atelier de foulage. 4. Dans 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.

noun: 1. Multitude de personnes rapprochées les unes des autres. 2. Le vulgaire, le commun des hommes, le grand nombre des personnes ou des choses ordinaires dans leur genre. 3. Grand nombre, grande quantité, multiplicité. 4. Presse qui résulte d’une grande multitude de gens.

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 foule

  • foules plural
  • foulée feminine
  • foulés masculine plural
  • foulées feminine plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to foule

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is foule in French?

foule appears 31 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).

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