fourme
French, noun/fuʁm/
fourme is spelled F-O-U-R-M-E (6 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written French, the 80,980th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fourme is a French feminine noun meaning “a type of creamy blue cheese made from cow's milk” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “(vieilli) Fourme du Cantal uniquement”.
What does fourme mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininea type of creamy blue cheese made from cow's milk
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. (vieilli) Fourme du Cantal uniquement. 2. Fromage cylindrique de lait de vache à pâte pressée non cuite, jaune et ferme, à croûte grise, pesant 40 kilogrammes et principalement fabriqué dans les monts du Cantal, le mont Dore et l'Aubrac. 3. Fromage cylindrique de lait de vache à pâte légèrement pressée non cuite, persillée de bleu et molle, à croûte blanche, pesant entre 2 et 2,5 kilogrammes et principalement fabriqué dans le Forez, en Basse-Auvergne et dans le Vivarais. 4. (Par métonymie) Pièce de ces fromages.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of fourme
- fourmes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce fourme?
- /fuʁm/
- \fuʁm\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is fourme in French?
fourme appears about once in every 6 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).