furore
/f(j)ʊˈɹɔːɹi/
"furore" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“furore” is uncommon English (frequency #62,159 among 2,507 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,159
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative form of furor.
Corpus desk
Index EN-furore · furore · English
furore · rank #62,159 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,159
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH Funke
Nearest frequency peer: Funke (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “furore”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- frightfully
frightfully
37,847 corpus weight
- fruitcake
fruitcake
37,846 corpus weight
- Funke
Funke
37,843 corpus weight
- furore
furore
37,842 corpus weight
- Gaeta
Gaeta
37,840 corpus weight
- Gamboa
Gamboa
37,838 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “furore” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | furore |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /f(j)ʊˈɹɔːɹi/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #62,159 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “furore” in English
Rare enough to double-check
furore is uncommon English at frequency #62,159 among 2,507 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /f(j)ʊˈɹɔːɹi/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Alternative form of furor.".
furore has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Italian furore, from Latin furor. Doublet of furor. The correct English form is furore, spelled F-U-R-O-R-E.
Definition
- 1Alternative form of furor.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how furore appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
“Despite the current furore over hacking, which is only a modern term for bugging, eavesdropping, signals intercept, listening-in, tapping, monitoring, there has never been guaranteed privacy since the earliest optical telegraphs to today’s internet,” Packer says. “There never was and never will be privacy.”
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian furore, from Latin furor. Doublet of furor.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).