hydrofoil
French, noun/i.dʁo.fɔjl/
hydrofoil is spelled H-Y-D-R-O-F-O-I-L (9 letters) and appears about once in every 65 million words in written French, the 253,038th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Hydrofoil is a French masculine noun meaning “hydrofoil (wing)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Variante de foil”.
What does hydrofoil mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinehydrofoil (wing)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Variante de foil.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of hydrofoil
- hydrofoils plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce hydrofoil?
- /i.dʁo.fɔjl/
- \i.dʁɔ.fojl\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is hydrofoil in French?
hydrofoil appears about once in every 65 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).