fourgon
\fuʁ.ɡɔ̃\
The verdict
“fourgon” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,630. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,630
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tige de fer ou longue perche de bois garnie de fer par le bout et servant à remuer, à arranger le bois et la braise dans le four.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fourgon · fourgon · French
fourgon · rank #21,630 · 10 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,630
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH forget
Nearest frequency peer: forget (-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 « fourgon »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- fidèlement
fidèlement
78,374 corpus weight
- forestières
forestières
78,373 corpus weight
- forget
forget
78,372 corpus weight
- fourgon
fourgon
78,371 corpus weight
- fury
fury
78,370 corpus weight
- gamma
gamma
78,369 corpus weight
What this shows « fourgon » 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 | fourgon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fuʁ.ɡɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #21,630 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « fourgon »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around fourgon (IPA \fuʁ.ɡɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #21,630 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Tige de fer ou longue perche de bois garnie de fer par le bout et servant à remuer, à arranger le bois et la braise dans le four.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for fourgon, with forms such as "ffourgon", "forugon", and "fougron". 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, "fourgons", "foulon", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is fourgon, spelled F-O-U-R-G-O-N.
Definition
- 1Tige de fer ou longue perche de bois garnie de fer par le bout et servant à remuer, à arranger le bois et la braise dans le four.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fourgon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Incontinent la lumière tira de l’ombre tous les objets : les larges pelles de sapin blanches et lisses, l’énorme fourgon emmanché d’une latte démesurée.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffourgon
- forugon
- fougron
- fourggon
- fourgno
- fourgonn
- fourogn
- fourrgon
- fuorgon
- ofurgon
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fourgon - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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