fougueuse
\fu.ɡøz\
The verdict
“fougueuse” is uncommon French (frequency #56,605 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,605
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de fougueux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fougueuse · fougueuse · French
fougueuse · rank #56,605 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,605
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH forçage
Nearest frequency peer: forçage (-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 « fougueuse »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fomenter
fomenter
43,399 corpus weight
- Forcalquier
Forcalquier
43,398 corpus weight
- forçage
forçage
43,397 corpus weight
- fougueuse
fougueuse
43,396 corpus weight
- Frenchies
Frenchies
43,395 corpus weight
- frime
frime
43,394 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fougueuse » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fougueuse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fu.ɡøz\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #56,605 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fougueuse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fougueuse is uncommon French at frequency #56,605 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \fu.ɡøz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de fougueux.".
No misspelling variants are generated for fougueuse in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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. The correct French form is fougueuse, spelled F-O-U-G-U-E-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de fougueux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fougueuse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vers la même époque , M. Mickiewicz composa cette belle Casside orientale, intitulée Pharis, poésie ardente et fougueuse comme le cheval arabe dont elle peint la course rapide, et qui égale en vigueur de ton et de coloris le Mazeppa de Byron.
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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