foutrait

\fu.tʁɛ\

/\fu.tʁɛ\/ verb

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The verdict

“foutrait” is uncommon French (frequency #64,457 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#64,457
frequency rank, French
3,276
“F” headwords

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

Corpus desk

Index FR-foutrait · foutrait · French

foutrait · rank #64,457 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #64,457
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,276
  • PHOTO-FINISH fragmentaires

Nearest frequency peer: fragmentaires (+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 « foutrait »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « foutrait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for foutrait
PropertyValue
Headwordfoutrait
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\fu.tʁɛ\
Letters8
Frequency rank#64,457
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « foutrait » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.foutraittombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « fragmentaires » (#64,458), « francophiles » (#64,459), « fonçant » (#64,454). Parmi 3,276 lemmes en « F », « foutrait » est au #64,457. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

foutrait is uncommon French at frequency #64,457 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \fu.tʁɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du conditionnel présent de foutre.".

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for foutrait, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is foutrait, spelled F-O-U-T-R-A-I-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du singulier du conditionnel présent de foutre.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Il ne foutrait rien, et c’est moi qui le gobergerais !…

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 "foutrait"?
"foutrait" is spelled F-O-U-T-R-A-I-T. The IPA pronunciation is \fu.tʁɛ\.
What does "foutrait" mean?
As a verb, "foutrait" means: Troisième personne du singulier du conditionnel présent de foutre.
How do you pronounce "foutrait"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "foutrait" is \fu.tʁɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "foutrait" come from?
"foutrait" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list