ferrures
\fɛ.ʁyʁ\
The verdict
“ferrures” is uncommon French (frequency #81,159 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,159
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de ferrure.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ferrures · ferrures · French
ferrures · rank #81,159 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,159
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fertilisant
Nearest frequency peer: fertilisant (+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 « ferrures »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- FCs
FCs
18,846 corpus weight
- Feinstein
Feinstein
18,844 corpus weight
- ferrures
ferrures
18,842 corpus weight
- fertilisant
fertilisant
18,841 corpus weight
- feue
feue
18,840 corpus weight
- fieffé
fieffé
18,839 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ferrures » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ferrures |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɛ.ʁyʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #81,159 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ferrures » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ferrures is uncommon French at frequency #81,159 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fɛ.ʁyʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de ferrure.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for ferrures, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is ferrures, spelled F-E-R-R-U-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de ferrure.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ferrures appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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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