fouloir
French, noun/fu.lwaʁ/
fouloir is spelled F-O-U-L-O-I-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 29 million words in written French, the 172,049th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fouloir is a French masculine noun meaning “press (for grapes etc)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Instrument qui sert au foulage des tissus, le cuir”.
What does fouloir mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinepress (for grapes etc)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Instrument qui sert au foulage des tissus, le cuir. 2. Instrument de dentisterie destiné à pousser l'amalgame dentaire bien au fond de la cavité à reboucher. On disait aussi plomboir. 3. Appareil pour fouler le raisin, composé de cylindres cannelés tournant en sens inverse. 4. En fonderie, outil qui sert au mouleur à comprimer la sable dans les châssis de moulage.
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 fouloir
- fouloirs plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce fouloir?
- /fu.lwaʁ/
- \fu.lwaʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is fouloir in French?
fouloir appears about once in every 29 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).