foreuse
\fɔ.ʁøz\
The verdict
“foreuse” is uncommon French (frequency #66,745 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,745
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Machine qui sert à forer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-foreuse · foreuse · French
foreuse · rank #66,745 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,745
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fongique
Nearest frequency peer: fongique (-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 « foreuse »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- flushing
flushing
33,259 corpus weight
- fondants
fondants
33,258 corpus weight
- fongique
fongique
33,257 corpus weight
- foreuse
foreuse
33,256 corpus weight
- fractal
fractal
33,255 corpus weight
- fracturer
fracturer
33,254 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « foreuse » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | foreuse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɔ.ʁøz\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #66,745 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « foreuse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
foreuse is uncommon French at frequency #66,745 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fɔ.ʁøz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for foreuse, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is foreuse, spelled F-O-R-E-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1Machine qui sert à forer.
- 2Appareil destiné au forage des puits de faible profondeur.
- 3Ouvrière qui fore.
- 4Nom vernaculaire de plusieurs espèces d’insectes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how foreuse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
… la perle est donc sensiblement plus légère que le diamant. En raison de son peu de dureté, elle est aisément percée à la foreuse et enfilée sur de la soie.
Elle est arrivée en début de semaine sur le chantier de la Part-Dieu : une énorme foreuse capable de réaliser des pieux d’1 mètre 20 de diamètre et à 25 mètres de profondeur.
Synonyms
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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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