enfourchure
\ɑ̃.fuʁ.ʃyʁ\
The verdict
“enfourchure” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bifurcation du tronc d’un arbre en deux branches.
Corpus desk
Index FR-enfourchure · enfourchure · French
enfourchure · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "E" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | enfourchure |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.fuʁ.ʃyʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
enfourchure is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɑ̃.fuʁ.ʃyʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
enfourchure doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is enfourchure, spelled E-N-F-O-U-R-C-H-U-R-E.
Definition
- 1Bifurcation du tronc d’un arbre en deux branches.
- 2Entrejambe.
- 3Partie du cheval se trouvant entre les cuisses du cavalier.
- 4L'ensemble des deux épois plantés au sommet de chaque merrain comme les dents d'une fourche.
- 5Bifurcation d'un chemin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how enfourchure appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« Oui ! répéta-t-il, trois branches… Il y en avait quatre hier, mais la quatrième est tombée cette nuit… Il n’en reste que le moignon… Je n’en compte plus que trois à l’enfourchure… Plus que trois, vieux burg… plus que trois ! »
Voilà mon Frédéric II sur l’enfourchure du tronc, à l’endroit d’où partaient les branches maîtresses.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.