foulque
\fulk\
The verdict
“foulque” is uncommon French (frequency #97,975 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,975
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petit échassier de la famille des rallidés ressemblant à la poule d’eau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-foulque · foulque · French
foulque · rank #97,975 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,975
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fougasse
Nearest frequency peer: fougasse (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « foulque »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- folliculaire
folliculaire
2,030 corpus weight
- fouettant
fouettant
2,028 corpus weight
- fougasse
fougasse
2,027 corpus weight
- foulque
foulque
2,026 corpus weight
- fracassés
fracassés
2,025 corpus weight
- Frederico
Frederico
2,024 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « foulque » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | foulque |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fulk\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #97,975 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « foulque » en français
Rare enough to double-check
foulque is uncommon French at frequency #97,975 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fulk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Petit échassier de la famille des rallidés ressemblant à la poule d’eau.".
Zero misspellings are on record for foulque in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is foulque, spelled F-O-U-L-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Petit échassier de la famille des rallidés ressemblant à la poule d’eau.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how foulque appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La baie de L’Aiguillon est le passage obligé des oiseaux migrateurs : foulques, macroules, tadornes…
– Est-ce qu’il a tué aussi des foulques ? – Oui, quand il avait dix-huit ans. Mais à la fin, il ne les tirait même plus. Ce n’est pas un coup de fusil digne d’un chasseur.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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