fourchue
\fuʁ.ʃy\
The verdict
“fourchue” is uncommon French (frequency #69,850 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,850
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de fourchu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fourchue · fourchue · French
fourchue · rank #69,850 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,850
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH FPF
Nearest frequency peer: FPF (+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 « fourchue »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fonctionna
fonctionna
30,154 corpus weight
- fonçait
fonçait
30,153 corpus weight
- fourchue
fourchue
30,151 corpus weight
- FPF
FPF
30,150 corpus weight
- frangipane
frangipane
30,149 corpus weight
- freire
freire
30,148 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fourchue » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fourchue |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fuʁ.ʃy\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #69,850 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fourchue » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fourchue is uncommon French at frequency #69,850 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \fuʁ.ʃy\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de fourchu.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for fourchue, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is fourchue, spelled F-O-U-R-C-H-U-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de fourchu.
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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