fourguer
\fuʁ.ɡe\
The verdict
“fourguer” is uncommon French (frequency #75,701 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,701
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vendre une marchandise volée ou de provenance douteuse ou de mauvaise qualité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fourguer · fourguer · French
fourguer · rank #75,701 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,701
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fondaient
Nearest frequency peer: fondaient (-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 « fourguer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fonceur
fonceur
24,302 corpus weight
- fondaient
fondaient
24,301 corpus weight
- fourguer
fourguer
24,300 corpus weight
- foxtrot
foxtrot
24,299 corpus weight
- fragilisent
fragilisent
24,298 corpus weight
- fragmenter
fragmenter
24,297 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fourguer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fourguer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fuʁ.ɡe\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #75,701 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fourguer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fourguer is uncommon French at frequency #75,701 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \fuʁ.ɡe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for fourguer, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is fourguer, spelled F-O-U-R-G-U-E-R.
Definition
- 1Vendre une marchandise volée ou de provenance douteuse ou de mauvaise qualité.
- 2Refiler, se débarrasser de quelque chose.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fourguer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J'ai pu planquer deux litrons du truc. Tâche de les fourguer à douze cents.
Il se passe quelque chose d’assez mystérieux quand, avec Charlie, le directeur artistique assis en face de moi, nous sentons que nous avons trouvé une idée pour fourguer une fois de plus un produit inutile dans le panier de la ménagère pauvre.
This word in other languages
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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