foutre le camp
\futʁ lə kɑ̃\
The verdict
“foutre le camp” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a verb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Partir, s’en aller précipitamment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | foutre le camp |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \futʁ lə kɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “foutre le camp” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for foutre le camp is 14 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \futʁ lə kɑ̃\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
foutre le camp has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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 foutre le camp, spelled F-O-U-T-R-E- -L-E- -C-A-M-P.
Definition
- 1Partir, s’en aller précipitamment.
- 2S'altérer, se dégrader, disparaître.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “foutre le camp”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is F-O-U-T-R-E- -L-E- -C-A-M-P - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \futʁ lə kɑ̃\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.