fourchette
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#10,505
in French word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
fourchette is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ustensile de table, en forme de petite fourche qui a deux, trois ou quatre pointes ou dents par le bout, et dont on se sert pour piquer les aliments. Pronounced \fuʁ.ʃɛt\. Often confused with fourchettes.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fourchette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fuʁ.ʃɛt\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #10,505 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for fourchette is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fuʁ.ʃɛt\. Corpus data places it at rank #10,505 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 14 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for fourchette, with forms such as "ffourchette", "foruchette", and "foucrhette". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "fourchettes", 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 fourchette, spelled F-O-U-R-C-H-E-T-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ustensile de table, en forme de petite fourche qui a deux, trois ou quatre pointes ou dents par le bout, et dont on se sert pour piquer les aliments.
- 2Quantité d'aliment que tient cet ustensile.
- 3Gamme, variation, plage.
- 4Menaces simultanées apportées par une même pièce, le plus souvent par le cavalier.
- 5Mauvais geste consistant à mettre ses doigts dans les yeux d’un adversaire.
- 6Bâton en forme d’Y dont se servaient autrefois les soldats pour appuyer leur mousquet en tirant.
- 7Bâton fourchu sur lequel on assujettit des cisailles.
- 8Partie du sabot du cheval située à sa face inférieure et qui fait un relief dans l’échancrure de la sole.
- 9Bréchet d’une volaille, etc.
- 10Élément de parapluie, d’une ombrelle ou d’un parasol reliant une baleine à l’anneau coulissant le long du mât.
- 11Bon mangeur.
- 12Chez les chevaux, partie de la face inférieure du sabot en forme de V saillant.
- 13Chez les oiseaux, os en forme d’Y constitué par la soudure des deux clavicules.
- 14Baïonnette.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ffourchette,foruchette,foucrhette,fourcchette,fourcehtte,fourchete,fourchetet,fourchhette,fourchtete,fourhcette,fourrchette,fuorchette,ofurchette
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for fourchette
Misspelling Variants of "fourchette"
Frequency rank: #10,505 in French
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