fourberies
\fuʁ.bə.ʁi\
The verdict
“fourberies” is uncommon French (frequency #63,004 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,004
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de fourberie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fourberies · fourberies · French
fourberies · rank #63,004 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,004
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH Formose
Nearest frequency peer: Formose (-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 « fourberies »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- focalisés
focalisés
37,000 corpus weight
- foisonnent
foisonnent
36,999 corpus weight
- Formose
Formose
36,998 corpus weight
- fourberies
fourberies
36,997 corpus weight
- fournissez
fournissez
36,996 corpus weight
- fourragère
fourragère
36,995 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fourberies » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fourberies |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fuʁ.bə.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #63,004 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fourberies » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fourberies is uncommon French at frequency #63,004 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fuʁ.bə.ʁi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de fourberie.".
fourberies doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is fourberies, spelled F-O-U-R-B-E-R-I-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de fourberie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fourberies appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ô Dieu, vous savez combien je suis éloignée des détours, des déguisements et des fourberies, surtout en cette matière.
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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