futon
\fy.tɔ̃\
The verdict
“futon” is uncommon French (frequency #65,177 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,177
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lit constitué d’un matelas très ferme pouvant se plier et ainsi constituer un divan.
Corpus desk
Index FR-futon · futon · French
futon · rank #65,177 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,177
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fuser
Nearest frequency peer: fuser (-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 « futon »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- frêles
frêles
34,828 corpus weight
- fuser
fuser
34,825 corpus weight
- futon
futon
34,824 corpus weight
- fécale
fécale
34,823 corpus weight
- fêtez
fêtez
34,822 corpus weight
- fœtal
fœtal
34,821 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « futon » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | futon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fy.tɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #65,177 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « futon » en français
Rare enough to double-check
futon is uncommon French at frequency #65,177 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fy.tɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Lit constitué d’un matelas très ferme pouvant se plier et ainsi constituer un divan.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for futon, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is futon, spelled F-U-T-O-N.
Definition
- 1Lit constitué d’un matelas très ferme pouvant se plier et ainsi constituer un divan.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how futon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je regardai avec émotion ce futon, imaginant mon élève qui y avait traversé les années, un livre à la main.
J'allumai mon ventilateur. Je paramétrai mon téléphone pour qu'il bipât dans deux heures et fort. Je dépliai mon futon et me couchai.
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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