froufrouter
\fʁu.fʁu.te\
The verdict
“froufrouter” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faire un bruit de froufrou.
Corpus desk
Index FR-froufrouter · froufrouter · French
froufrouter · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 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 | froufrouter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fʁu.fʁu.te\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « froufrouter » en français
Rare enough to double-check
froufrouter is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \fʁu.fʁu.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Faire un bruit de froufrou.".
Zero misspellings are on record for froufrouter in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is froufrouter, spelled F-R-O-U-F-R-O-U-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Faire un bruit de froufrou.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how froufrouter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je me mets à la fenêtre et regarde au loin s’éteindre les hameaux. Un rossignol froufroute dans un tas de fagots et se met à chanter. Il y a le coucou qui fait hou-hou ! dans les arbres du grand bois, et les grenouilles jacassent.
Les feuilles des arbres froufroutaient avec le même bruit que les e-books quand on tourne la page. — (Daniel Nayeri, Notre-Dame des Traîtres, dans Brigade des crimes imaginaires et autres histoires fantastiques et déglinguées, traduit de l’anglais par Valérie Le Plouhinec, Hélium, 2008, page 231)
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.