foutre les poils
\futʁ lɛ pwal\
The verdict
“foutre les poils” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Provoquer de l’émotion.
Corpus desk
Index FR-foutre-les-poils · foutre les poils · French
foutre les poils · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 16 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "F" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | foutre les poils |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \futʁ lɛ pwal\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
foutre les poils is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \futʁ lɛ pwal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Provoquer de l’émotion.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for foutre les poils, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is foutre les poils, spelled F-O-U-T-R-E- -L-E-S- -P-O-I-L-S.
Definition
- 1Provoquer de l’émotion.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how foutre les poils appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le monde, le monde de demain On le bégayait tous sans n'y comprendre rien À la loi nouvelle des éléments Qui nous foutait la frousse et les poils en même temps
Synonyms
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.