foutaise
\fu.tɛz\
The verdict
“foutaise” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #36,850. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,850
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chose sans importance, sans utilité, sans intérêt, dénuée de sens.
Corpus desk
Index FR-foutaise · foutaise · French
foutaise · rank #36,850 · 10 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,850
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fournée
Nearest frequency peer: fournée (-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 « foutaise »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- fougère
fougère
63,154 corpus weight
- fouillée
fouillée
63,153 corpus weight
- fournée
fournée
63,152 corpus weight
- foutaise
foutaise
63,151 corpus weight
- foutaises
foutaises
63,150 corpus weight
- FP
FP
63,149 corpus weight
What this shows « foutaise » 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 | foutaise |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fu.tɛz\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #36,850 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « foutaise »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around foutaise (IPA \fu.tɛz\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #36,850 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for foutaise, with forms such as "ffoutaise", "fotuaise", and "fouatise". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "foutait", "foutaises", "foutage", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is foutaise, spelled F-O-U-T-A-I-S-E.
Definition
- 1Chose sans importance, sans utilité, sans intérêt, dénuée de sens.
- 2Mensonge, fausseté.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how foutaise appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quand il arriva vers chez Doni, pouf ! il prit une première bûche en jurant des « tonnerre de Dieu ! » contre ce sale chemin que le père Bréda, le cantonnier (un feignant qui n’avait fait que sept ans et la campagne d’Italie, quelle foutaise !) entretenait salement mal.
Un éditeur […] lui proposa de rafistoler les manuscrits d'un grand faiseur feuilletonnesque. […]. Henri se mit à la besogne, remania l'infâme et crasseuse foutaise du romancier célèbre, pimenta cette ratatouille sans goût.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffoutaise
- fotuaise
- fouatise
- foutaies
- foutaisse
- foutasie
- foutiase
- fouttaise
- fuotaise
- ofutaise
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of foutaise - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).