fourche
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#20,730
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
9
similar word pairs
fourche is aFrenchnoun. It means: Instrument qui consiste en un long manche de bois terminé par deux ou trois branches ou pointes de bois, de fer, qui vont en s’écartant. Pronounced \fuʁʃ\. Often confused with fourré and fournie.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fourche |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fuʁʃ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #20,730 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for fourche is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fuʁʃ\. Corpus data places it at rank #20,730 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for fourche, with forms such as "ffourche", "foruche", and "foucrhe". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "fourré", "fournie", "fournée", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is fourche, spelled F-O-U-R-C-H-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Instrument qui consiste en un long manche de bois terminé par deux ou trois branches ou pointes de bois, de fer, qui vont en s’écartant.
- 2Tout ce qui a la forme ou rappelle la forme de cet instrument.
- 3Chose qui se divise en deux ou trois par l’extrémité.
- 4Division, en particulier prématurée, du tronc en plusieurs branches.
- 5Pièce constituée par deux barres d’acier creux entre lesquelles tourne la roue d’une bicyclette.
- 6Tige qui relie un tramway à un fil électrique placé en l’air.
- 7Heure libre entre deux heures de cours.
- 8Couture qui sépare les jambes d’un pantalon.
- 9Jambe.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ffourche,foruche,foucrhe,fourcche,fourceh,fourchhe,fourhce,fourrche,fuorche,ofurche
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for fourche
Misspelling Variants of "fourche"
Frequency rank: #20,730 in French
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