froufrou
\fʁu.fʁu\
The verdict
“froufrou” is uncommon French (frequency #94,826 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,826
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bruit léger produit par le frôlement ou le froissement de quelque chose.
Corpus desk
Index FR-froufrou · froufrou · French
froufrou · rank #94,826 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,826
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH Frenchman
Nearest frequency peer: Frenchman (-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 « froufrou »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Franceschi
Franceschi
5,178 corpus weight
- franchissem…
franchissements
5,177 corpus weight
- Frenchman
Frenchman
5,176 corpus weight
- froufrou
froufrou
5,175 corpus weight
- fucker
fucker
5,174 corpus weight
- gallot
gallot
5,173 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « froufrou » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | froufrou |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fʁu.fʁu\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #94,826 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « froufrou » en français
Rare enough to double-check
froufrou is uncommon French at frequency #94,826 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fʁu.fʁu\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for froufrou in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is froufrou, spelled F-R-O-U-F-R-O-U.
Definition
- 1Bruit léger produit par le frôlement ou le froissement de quelque chose.
- 2Ornement de tissu d’un vêtement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how froufrou appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il se regardait dans la glace, par-dessus une vieille pendule-Empire, en se passant lui-même en revue, quand le froufrou de la robe de soie lui annonça la baronne. Et il se remit aussitôt en position.
Les robes de soie faisaient froufrou à travers les chaises…
This word in other languages
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.
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