foutre les poils

/\futʁ lɛ pwal\/ verb

Letters

16 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

foutre les poils is aFrenchverb. It means: Provoquer de l’émotion. Pronounced \futʁ lɛ pwal\.

Key facts for foutre les poils
PropertyValue
Headwordfoutre les poils
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\futʁ lɛ pwal\
Letters16
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

foutre les poils 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 les poils is 16 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \futʁ lɛ pwal\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Provoquer de l’émotion.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for foutre les poils 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 les poils, spelled F-O-U-T-R-E- -L-E-S- -P-O-I-L-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Provoquer de l’émotion.

Synonyms

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "foutre les poils"?
"foutre les poils" is spelled F-O-U-T-R-E- -L-E-S- -P-O-I-L-S. The IPA pronunciation is \futʁ lɛ pwal\.
What does "foutre les poils" mean?
As a verb, "foutre les poils" means: Provoquer de l’émotion.
How do you pronounce "foutre les poils"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "foutre les poils" is \futʁ lɛ pwal\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "foutre les poils" 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.