foutoir
\fu.twaʁ\
The verdict
“foutoir” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #36,400. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,400
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lieu de prostitution
Corpus desk
Index FR-foutoir · foutoir · French
foutoir · rank #36,400 · 9 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,400
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fourmilière
Nearest frequency peer: fourmilière (-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 « foutoir »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- flood
flood
63,605 corpus weight
- Fouad
Fouad
63,603 corpus weight
- fourmilière
fourmilière
63,602 corpus weight
- foutoir
foutoir
63,601 corpus weight
- franciscains
franciscains
63,599 corpus weight
- frappeur
frappeur
63,598 corpus weight
What this shows « foutoir » 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 | foutoir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fu.twaʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #36,400 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « foutoir »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around foutoir (IPA \fu.twaʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #36,400 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for foutoir, with forms such as "ffoutoir", "fotuoir", and "fouotir". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "fournir", "foutait", "foutais", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is foutoir, spelled F-O-U-T-O-I-R.
Definition
- 1Lieu de prostitution
- 2Désordre extrême, chaos.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how foutoir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’autre jour tu as été reçu dans le foutoir d’Alexine, rue Duphot. Mais maintenant que nous te connaissons, tu peux venir chez moi.
Et ce sont des pauses et des gestes toujours plus obscènes, des mouvements de solitude vulgaires, un foutoir insensé, sans qu’il y puisse jamais toucher.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffoutoir
- fotuoir
- fouotir
- foutior
- foutoirr
- foutori
- fouttoir
- fuotoir
- ofutoir
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of foutoir - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).