fougere
noun
fougere is a noun meaning “Alternative form of fougère” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-O-U-G-E-R-E and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 40 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fougere is fougères or fougeres.
What does fougere mean?
noun
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Alternative form of fougère
noun
- 1
One of the main olfactive families of perfumes, based on the compound coumarin; (countable) a perfume of that family.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce fougere?
Fougere has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of fougere
- fougères plural
- fougeres plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fougere?
Fougere appears about once in every 40 million words in written English, the 194,306th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does fougere come from?
Borrowed from French fougère (literally “fern”), from the perfume Fougère Royale (“Royal Fern”) launched in 1882 by Houbigant.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).