fourbi
\fuʁ.bi\
The verdict
“fourbi” is uncommon French (frequency #95,922 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,922
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ensemble des armes et possessions d’un soldat.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fourbi · fourbi · French
fourbi · rank #95,922 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,922
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH formosa
Nearest frequency peer: formosa (-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 « fourbi »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- footage
footage
4,082 corpus weight
- formalisées
formalisées
4,081 corpus weight
- formosa
formosa
4,080 corpus weight
- fourbi
fourbi
4,079 corpus weight
- Framatome
Framatome
4,078 corpus weight
- franchiseur
franchiseur
4,077 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fourbi » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fourbi |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fuʁ.bi\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #95,922 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fourbi » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fourbi is uncommon French at frequency #95,922 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fuʁ.bi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
fourbi doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is fourbi, spelled F-O-U-R-B-I.
Definition
- 1Ensemble des armes et possessions d’un soldat.
- 2Ensemble d’objets non identifiés ou de peu de valeur.
- 3Affaire embrouillée et malhonnête.
- 4Affaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fourbi appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« C’est du service militaire, on t’apprend à se servir d’une arme, et la discipline, et tout le fourbi… ».
Nul adjudant aux moustaches en crocs ne passa en revue son fourbi.
This word in other languages
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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