furious

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The English entry for furious is 7 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈfjʊə.ɹɪəs/. Corpus data places it at rank #7,341 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for furious, with forms such as "ffurious", "fruious", and "fuirous". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "furiously", "ferrous", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English furious, from Old French furieus, from Latin furiōsus. Displaced native Old English hātheort (literally “hot-hearted”). Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is furious, spelled F-U-R-I-O-U-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.