foutons
\fu.tɔ̃\
The verdict
“foutons” is uncommon French (frequency #89,731 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,731
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de foutre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-foutons · foutons · French
foutons · rank #89,731 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,731
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fouilla
Nearest frequency peer: fouilla (-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 « foutons »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fluence
fluence
10,275 corpus weight
- formions
formions
10,272 corpus weight
- fouilla
fouilla
10,271 corpus weight
- foutons
foutons
10,270 corpus weight
- foye
foye
10,269 corpus weight
- francese
francese
10,268 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « foutons » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | foutons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fu.tɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #89,731 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « foutons » en français
Rare enough to double-check
foutons is uncommon French at frequency #89,731 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \fu.tɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for foutons, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is foutons, spelled F-O-U-T-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de foutre.
- 2Première personne du pluriel de l’impératif présent de foutre.
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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