Which to use
“foll” and “folles” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #35,043
- “foll” frequency rank
- #10,503
- “folles” frequency rank
- 45546
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | foll | folles |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Fou. | Féminin pluriel de fou. |
Same sound, different letters: foll vs folles
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 4 letters. foll runs 4 letters (CVCC) against folles's 6 (CVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Same sound, different spelling - foll / folles
This is the hard kind. foll and folles are pronounced identically (\ˈfɔlː\) and both work as anadjective. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 2 extra letter(s) - “foll” sits inside “folles”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 45546, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
foll is recorded at frequency rank #35,043, classified as anadj, pronounced \ˈfɔlː\. folles is at rank #10,503, tagged as anadj, pronounced \fɔl\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 45546, this pair ranks #201,919 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of foll vs folles
Shared letters: flo. Private to "foll": -. Private to "folles": es.
"foll" · 4 letters · shape CVCC · "folles" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "foll" and "folles" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "foll" vs "folles" - which ranks higher?
After this comparison
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "foll" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "folles" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #201,919 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "foll" and "folles" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Feld vs foll". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #201,919 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.