foutre le camp

/\futʁ lə kɑ̃\/ verb

Letters

14 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

foutre le camp is aFrenchverb. It means: Partir, s’en aller précipitamment. Pronounced \futʁ lə kɑ̃\.

Key facts for foutre le camp
PropertyValue
Headwordfoutre le camp
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\futʁ lə kɑ̃\
Letters14
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

foutre le camp is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for foutre le camp is 14 letters long, classified as averb, 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.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for foutre le camp in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is foutre le camp, spelled F-O-U-T-R-E- -L-E- -C-A-M-P, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Partir, s’en aller précipitamment.
  2. 2
    S'altérer, se dégrader, disparaître.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "foutre le camp"?
"foutre le camp" is spelled F-O-U-T-R-E- -L-E- -C-A-M-P. The IPA pronunciation is \futʁ lə kɑ̃\.
What does "foutre le camp" mean?
As a verb, "foutre le camp" means: Partir, s’en aller précipitamment.
How do you pronounce "foutre le camp"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "foutre le camp" is \futʁ lə kɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "foutre le camp" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.