foireuse
\fwa.ʁøz\
The verdict
“foireuse” is uncommon French (frequency #52,074 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,074
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom donné à la mercuriale annuelle (Mercurialis annua) en Lorraine, Champagne et Bourgogne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-foireuse · foireuse · French
foireuse · rank #52,074 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,074
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH frai
Nearest frequency peer: frai (+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 « foireuse »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Firewall
Firewall
47,931 corpus weight
- flamant
flamant
47,930 corpus weight
- flegme
flegme
47,929 corpus weight
- foireuse
foireuse
47,927 corpus weight
- frai
frai
47,926 corpus weight
- fugues
fugues
47,924 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « foireuse » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | foireuse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fwa.ʁøz\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #52,074 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « foireuse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
foireuse is uncommon French at frequency #52,074 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fwa.ʁøz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom donné à la mercuriale annuelle (Mercurialis annua) en Lorraine, Champagne et Bourgogne.".
foireuse doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 foireuse, spelled F-O-I-R-E-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1Nom donné à la mercuriale annuelle (Mercurialis annua) en Lorraine, Champagne et Bourgogne.
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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