fout

verb

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The verdict

“fout” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,403. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#3,403
frequency rank, French
3,276
“F” headwords
5
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de foutre.

Corpus desk

Index FR-fout · fout · French

fout · rank #3,403 · 5 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #3,403
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 5 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,276
  • PHOTO-FINISH engage

Nearest frequency peer: engage (-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 « fout »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « fout » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

fout vs ft
50% similar
fout vs fun
50% similar
fout vs fût
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for fout
PropertyValue
Headwordfout
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
Letters4
Frequency rank#3,403
Misspellings tracked5
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « fout »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).foutse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « engage » (#3,402), « frédéric » (#3,404), « dépasse » (#3,401). Parmi 3,276 lemmes en « F », « fout » est au #3,403. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 5 spelling variants around fout, averb. Corpus frequency is #3,403 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de foutre.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for fout, with forms such as "ffout", "fotu", and "foutt". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ft", "fun", "fût", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 fout, spelled F-O-U-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de foutre.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how fout appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Qu'est-ce qu'il fout, Paul ? On n'attend plus que lui !

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ffout
  • fotu
  • foutt
  • fuot
  • ofut

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fout - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

ffout1fotu2foutt1fuot2ofut2
Edit distance from "fout"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "fout"?
"fout" is spelled F-O-U-T.
What does "fout" mean?
As a verb, "fout" means: Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de foutre.
What words are commonly confused with "fout"?
"fout" is commonly confused with "ft", "fun", "fût". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "fout" come from?
"fout" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
Is PlainSpell free to use?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "fout", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Loup#3,409stop#3,422vins#3,370team#3,368

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).

Iran5 variantsliée5 variantsfallu5 variantsAlex5 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list