meule de foin
\møl də fwɛ̃\
The verdict
“meule de foin” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Tas de foin de forme conventionnelle (conique à son sommet) destiné à regrouper le foin avant de l’engranger.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | meule de foin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \møl də fwɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “meule de foin” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for meule de foin is 13 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \møl də fwɛ̃\. 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: "Tas de foin de forme conventionnelle (conique à son sommet) destiné à regrouper le foin avant de l’engranger.".
No misspelling variants are generated for meule de foin in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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 meule de foin, spelled M-E-U-L-E- -D-E- -F-O-I-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Tas de foin de forme conventionnelle (conique à son sommet) destiné à regrouper le foin avant de l’engranger.
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Using “meule de foin”
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- The one correct French spelling is M-E-U-L-E- -D-E- -F-O-I-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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