fougère
French, noun/fu.ʒɛʁ/
fougère is spelled F-O-U-G-È-R-E (7 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 36,757th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fougère is a French feminine noun meaning “fern” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Plante aux grandes feuilles, dont les très nombreuses espèces constituent la classe des filicinées, la plus…”.
What does fougère mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininefern
La fougère pousse souvent dans les forêts humides et ombragées.
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Plante aux grandes feuilles, dont les très nombreuses espèces constituent la classe des filicinées, la plus importante classe des cryptogames vasculaires.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of fougère
- fougères plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce fougère?
- /fu.ʒɛʁ/
- \fu.ʒɛʁ\
- [fu.ʒɛʁ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to fougère
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is fougère in French?
fougère appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).