Fouras
\fu.ʁa\
The verdict
“Fouras” is uncommon French (frequency #61,540 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,540
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département de la Charente-Maritime.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fouras · Fouras · French
Fouras · rank #61,540 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,540
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fouillées
Nearest frequency peer: fouillées (-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 « Fouras »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Foucart
Foucart
38,464 corpus weight
- Foucauld
Foucauld
38,463 corpus weight
- fouillées
fouillées
38,462 corpus weight
- Fouras
Fouras
38,461 corpus weight
- franchies
franchies
38,460 corpus weight
- fraternités
fraternités
38,459 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Fouras » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Fouras |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \fu.ʁa\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #61,540 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Fouras » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Fouras is uncommon French at frequency #61,540 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \fu.ʁa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Commune française, située dans le département de la Charente-Maritime.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Fouras in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented 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 Fouras, spelled F-O-U-R-A-S.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département de la Charente-Maritime.
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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