ferrure
\fɛ.ʁyʁ\
The verdict
“ferrure” is uncommon French (frequency #89,717 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,717
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Garniture de fer et, par extension, d’autre métal.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ferrure · ferrure · French
ferrure · rank #89,717 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,717
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH Ferretti
Nearest frequency peer: Ferretti (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « ferrure »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fendent
fendent
10,287 corpus weight
- fermerai
fermerai
10,286 corpus weight
- Ferretti
Ferretti
10,285 corpus weight
- ferrure
ferrure
10,284 corpus weight
- Findlay
Findlay
10,281 corpus weight
- fior
fior
10,280 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ferrure » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ferrure |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɛ.ʁyʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #89,717 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ferrure » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ferrure is uncommon French at frequency #89,717 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fɛ.ʁyʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for ferrure in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is ferrure, spelled F-E-R-R-U-R-E.
Definition
- 1Garniture de fer et, par extension, d’autre métal.
- 2Fers d’un cheval.
- 3Manière dont on ferre un cheval.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ferrure appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les murs seraient des placards de bois clair, dont les ferrures de cuivre luiraient.
Ne me raccompagnez pas, je trouverai bien le chemin. Il le trouva, en effet, grâce à l’obligeance d’une sœur souriante et muette qui l’extrayit des cuisines, où il s’était fourvoyé, pour le conduire jusqu’à la lourde porte bardée de ferrures.
Antonyms
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); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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