feutre
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#24,591
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
17
similar word pairs
feutre is aFrenchnoun. It means: Étoffe non tissée constituée de poils ou de fibres de laine agglomérées ensemble par soufflage, et mise sous pression avec ébouillantage dans la forme, ou, en fabrication traditionnelle mongole par... Pronounced \føtʁ\. Often confused with foute and flute.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | feutre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \føtʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #24,591 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for feutre is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \føtʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #24,591 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 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for feutre, with forms such as "efutre", "feture", and "feurte". 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 17 confusable-pair relationships, "foute", "flute", "foutre", and more, 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 feutre, spelled F-E-U-T-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Étoffe non tissée constituée de poils ou de fibres de laine agglomérées ensemble par soufflage, et mise sous pression avec ébouillantage dans la forme, ou, en fabrication traditionnelle mongole par mouillage et foulage.
- 2Crayon dont la mine est faite en feutre ou en synthétique.
- 3Chapeau de feutre.
- 4Bourre dont se servent les selliers pour rembourrer une selle.
- 5Matière fibreuse utilisée pour la lubrification, les joints et presse-étoupes d’étanchéité, ainsi que comme membranes de filtres.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: efutre,feture,feurte,feuter,feutrre,feuttre,ffeutre,fuetre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "feutre"
Frequency rank: #24,591 in French
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