fosse

/\fos\/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#7,964

in French word usage

Misspellings

5

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

fosse is aFrenchnoun. It means: Cavité dans le sol, le plus souvent artificielle. Pronounced \fos\. It ranks #7,964 in French word frequency. Often confused with fous and fuse.

Key facts for fosse
PropertyValue
Headwordfosse
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\fos\
Letters5
Frequency rank#7,964
Misspellings tracked5
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of fosse in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for fosse is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fos\. Corpus data places it at rank #7,964 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 18 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for fosse, with forms such as "ffosse", "fose", and "foses". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "fous", "fuse", "foule", 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 fosse, spelled F-O-S-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Cavité dans le sol, le plus souvent artificielle.
  2. 2
    Creux fait à même la terre par la nature ou par la main de l’homme.
  3. 3
    Dépression de forme allongée, de profondeur et de dimensions importantes, avec des flancs à inclination variable, se trouvant généralement dans les océans.
  4. 4
    Trou creusé à plomb pour prendre les loups.
  5. 5
    Trou creusé en terre et dans lequel on met les morts.
  6. 6
    Partie d'une scène, invisible aux spectateurs, dans laquelle se place l’orchestre des musiciens.
  7. 7
    Cavité creusée pour l'extraction de minerai.
  8. 8
    Trou que les jardiniers font dans le sol pour leurs cultures.
  9. 9
    Trou que les jardiniers font dans le sol pour leurs cultures.
  10. 10
    Trou que les jardiniers font dans le sol pour leurs cultures.
  11. 11
    Cavité plus ou moins grande, dont l’ouverture est plus large que le fond.
  12. 12
    Ouverture par laquelle certains cétacés aspirent l’air puis le rejettent.
  13. 13
    Cavité maçonnée qu'utilisaient divers corps de métiers.
  14. 14
    Cavité maçonnée qu'utilisaient divers corps de métiers.
  15. 15
    Cavité maçonnée qu'utilisaient divers corps de métiers.
  16. 16
    Cavité maçonnée qu'utilisaient divers corps de métiers.
  17. 17
    Cavité maçonnée qu'utilisaient divers corps de métiers.
  18. 18
    Cavité maçonnée qu'utilisaient divers corps de métiers.

Synonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ffosse,fose,foses,fsose,ofsse

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for fosse

Misspelling Variants of "fosse"

ffosse6fose4foses5fsose5ofsse5
Misspelling Variants of "fosse"

Frequency rank: #7,964 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "fosse"?
"fosse" is spelled F-O-S-S-E. The IPA pronunciation is \fos\.
What does "fosse" mean?
As a noun, "fosse" means: Cavité dans le sol, le plus souvent artificielle.
What words are commonly confused with "fosse"?
"fosse" is commonly confused with "fous", "fuse", "foule". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "fosse"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "fosse" is \fos\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "fosse" come from?
"fosse" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.