fouler
French, verb/fu.le/
fouler is spelled F-O-U-L-E-R (6 letters) and appears 1.1 times per million words in written French, the 29,681st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fouler is a French verb meaning “to stamp, to impress, to dent; to mill” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Presser quelque chose qui cède, avec les pieds, les mains ou à l’aide d’un mécanisme”.
What does fouler mean in English?
verb
- 1
to stamp, to impress, to dent; to mill
- 2
to walk on, to tread, to trample
- 3
to oppress, to mistreat
fouler aux pieds
- 4
to injure by knocking, bumping or dinting
- 5
to sprain
Je me suis foulé la cheville en jouant au rugby
- 6
colloquialto wear oneself out, to overdo it
ne pas se fouler
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Presser quelque chose qui cède, avec les pieds, les mains ou à l’aide d’un mécanisme. 2. Faire battre ou parcourir un bois par la meute. 3. Presser sur les feuilles qui reçoivent l’impression. 4. Marcher sur.
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 fouler
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- foulant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- foulé participle past
- foule first-person indicative present
- foules indicative present second-person
- foulons first-person indicative plural
- foulez indicative plural present
- foulent indicative plural present
- foulais first-person imperfect indicative
- foulait imperfect indicative singular
- foulions first-person imperfect indicative
- fouliez imperfect indicative plural
- foulaient imperfect indicative plural
- foulai first-person historic indicative
- foulas historic indicative past
- foula historic indicative past
- foulâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce fouler?
- /fu.le/
- \fu.le\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to fouler
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is fouler in French?
fouler appears 1.1 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).