fourcade
\fuʁ.kad\
The verdict
“fourcade” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #34,545. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,545
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante de forcade.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fourcade · fourcade · French
fourcade · rank #34,545 · 11 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,545
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH forward
Nearest frequency peer: forward (-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 « fourcade »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- flying
flying
65,459 corpus weight
- formalisme
formalisme
65,458 corpus weight
- forward
forward
65,457 corpus weight
- fourcade
fourcade
65,456 corpus weight
- féminisation
féminisation
65,455 corpus weight
- gifler
gifler
65,453 corpus weight
What this shows « fourcade » 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 | fourcade |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fuʁ.kad\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #34,545 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « fourcade »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around fourcade (IPA \fuʁ.kad\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #34,545 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Variante de forcade.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for fourcade, with forms such as "ffourcade", "forucade", and "foucrade". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "fourche", "fourrage", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is fourcade, spelled F-O-U-R-C-A-D-E.
Definition
- 1Variante de forcade.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fourcade appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La pêche aux huîtres a été assez bonne et promet d’être meilleure en 1875 ; elle se pratique en pleine mer par les bateaux-bœufs séparés, c’est-à-dire à la forcade… sur l’étang de Thau on fait usage de la fourcade.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffourcade
- forucade
- foucrade
- fouracde
- fourcadde
- fourcaed
- fourccade
- fourcdae
- fourrcade
- fuorcade
- ofurcade
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fourcade - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "fourcade", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (11 here; floor ≥5).