fouler
\fu.le\
The verdict
“fouler” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,779. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,779
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Presser quelque chose qui cède, avec les pieds, les mains ou à l’aide d’un mécanisme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fouler · fouler · French
fouler · rank #29,779 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,779
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH forcené
Nearest frequency peer: forcené (-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 « fouler »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- flores
flores
70,225 corpus weight
- fluvial
fluvial
70,224 corpus weight
- forcené
forcené
70,223 corpus weight
- fouler
fouler
70,222 corpus weight
- franciliens
franciliens
70,220 corpus weight
- froideur
froideur
70,219 corpus weight
What this shows « fouler » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fouler |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fu.le\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #29,779 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « fouler »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around fouler (IPA \fu.le\), averb. Corpus frequency is #29,779 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for fouler, with forms such as "ffouler", "foluer", and "fouelr". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "four", "foyer", "fumer", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is fouler, spelled F-O-U-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1Presser quelque chose qui cède, avec les pieds, les mains ou à l’aide d’un mécanisme.
- 2Faire battre ou parcourir un bois par la meute.
- 3Presser sur les feuilles qui reçoivent l’impression.
- 4Marcher sur.
- 5Opprimer par des exactions, surcharger d’impôts.
- 6ou Blesser en frappant ou en pressant fortement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fouler appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les raisins cueillis sont transportés dans de grandes cuves en bois où des hommes les foulent avec les pieds ; la pulpe étant brisée, les diverses matières constitutives sont ainsi mises en contact intime.
Cette industrie du drap est en effet l'une des plus complexes, et le nombre des opérations nécessaires pour transformer la laine brute en produit fini est très élevé. Il fallait trier la laine, la teindre, la mélanger, la carder, la filer, la tisser, dégraisser le tissu, le fouler, le lainer, le tondre, l'épinceter, et enfin lui donner de l'éclat en le pr…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffouler
- foluer
- fouelr
- foulerr
- fouller
- foulre
- fuoler
- ofuler
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fouler - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).