farouche
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#20,139
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
farouche is anFrenchadj. It means: Sauvage, indompté, qui s’enfuit quand on l’approche, en parlant des bêtes. Pronounced \fa.ʁuʃ\. Often confused with fauche and farouches.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | farouche |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \fa.ʁuʃ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #20,139 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for farouche is 8 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fa.ʁuʃ\. Corpus data places it at rank #20,139 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for farouche, with forms such as "afrouche", "faoruche", and "farocuhe". 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, "fauche", "farouches", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is farouche, spelled F-A-R-O-U-C-H-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Sauvage, indompté, qui s’enfuit quand on l’approche, en parlant des bêtes.
- 2Craintif, ombrageux, insociable, intraitable… en parlant des personnes.
- 3Craintif, peureux, ombrageux, en parlant de l’air, du regard, des manières, des sentiments, etc.
- 4Se dit d’une jeune fille ou d’une femme qui refuse que l’on lui fasse la cour.
- 5Entêté, féroce, persistant.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: afrouche,faoruche,farocuhe,faroucche,farouceh,farouchhe,farouhce,farrouche,faruoche,ffarouche,fraouche
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Relative frequency of common misspelling types for farouche
Misspelling Variants of "farouche"
Frequency rank: #20,139 in French
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