Fouesnant
\fwɛ.nɑ̃\
The verdict
“Fouesnant” is uncommon French (frequency #76,589 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,589
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département du Finistère.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fouesnant · Fouesnant · French
Fouesnant · rank #76,589 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,589
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH foudroyer
Nearest frequency peer: foudroyer (-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 « Fouesnant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- focales
focales
23,415 corpus weight
- foudroyer
foudroyer
23,413 corpus weight
- Fouesnant
Fouesnant
23,412 corpus weight
- fouillait
fouillait
23,411 corpus weight
- fracassantes
fracassantes
23,409 corpus weight
- fretin
fretin
23,408 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Fouesnant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Fouesnant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \fwɛ.nɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #76,589 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Fouesnant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Fouesnant is uncommon French at frequency #76,589 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \fwɛ.nɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Fouesnant doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Fouesnant, spelled F-O-U-E-S-N-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département du Finistère.
- 2Canton français, situé dans le département du Finistère.
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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