feur
\fœʁ\
The verdict
“feur” is uncommon French (frequency #88,626 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,626
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Réponse humoristique à une phrase contenant le terme « quoi ».
Corpus desk
Index FR-feur · feur · French
feur · rank #88,626 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,626
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH festi
Nearest frequency peer: festi (-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 « feur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Ferenc
Ferenc
11,378 corpus weight
- ferrys
ferrys
11,377 corpus weight
- festi
festi
11,376 corpus weight
- feur
feur
11,375 corpus weight
- feus
feus
11,374 corpus weight
- Feyzin
Feyzin
11,373 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « feur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | feur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | \fœʁ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #88,626 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « feur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
feur is uncommon French at frequency #88,626 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as aninterjection, transcribed \fœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Réponse humoristique à une phrase contenant le terme « quoi ».".
feur doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is feur, spelled F-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Réponse humoristique à une phrase contenant le terme « quoi ».
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how feur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— Quoi ? — Feur. Sans même le voir, Tommy pouvait parfaitement se représenter mentalement le large sourire qui devait s’étaler sur la face de John après cette énième blague dont la qualité restait douteuse.
Mon père cogne à la porte de ma chambre. — Laurie ? — Quoi ? — Feur. Je l’entends rigoler de l’autre côté de la porte. J’ai dû faire cette blague stupide à mes parents au moins cent… cent cinquante millions de fois quand j’avais neuf ans.
Synonyms
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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