fougères
\fu.ʒɛʁ\
The verdict
“fougères” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,273. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,273
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de fougère.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fougeres · fougères · French
fougères · rank #22,273 · 12 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,273
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH formaient
Nearest frequency peer: formaient (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « fougères »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- fluo
fluo
77,731 corpus weight
- Foix
Foix
77,730 corpus weight
- formaient
formaient
77,729 corpus weight
- fougères
fougères
77,728 corpus weight
- fourrer
fourrer
77,727 corpus weight
- foutait
foutait
77,726 corpus weight
What this shows « fougères » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fougères |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fu.ʒɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #22,273 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « fougères »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around fougères (IPA \fu.ʒɛʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #22,273 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de fougère.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for fougères, with forms such as "ffougères", "foguères", and "fougeres". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "fourrés", "foulées", "foudres", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is fougères, spelled F-O-U-G-È-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de fougère.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fougères appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Bien accueillis par les communes et les particuliers, les moutons ont en effet le mérite de désenfricher les pâturages, en particulier de détruire les fougères — 450 moutons broutant autant qu’une centaine de bovins —, la sauvegarde des pâturages serait ainsi assurée, les espaces ouverts maintenus.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffougères
- foguères
- fougeres
- fouggères
- fougrèes
- fougèers
- fougèress
- fougèrres
- fougèrse
- fouègres
- fuogères
- ofugères
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fougères - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).