Fourmies
The verdict
“Fourmies” is uncommon French (frequency #83,891 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,891
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département du Nord.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fourmies · Fourmies · French
Fourmies · rank #83,891 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,891
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fossilisé
Nearest frequency peer: fossilisé (-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 « Fourmies »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- formal
formal
16,113 corpus weight
- forçais
forçais
16,112 corpus weight
- fossilisé
fossilisé
16,111 corpus weight
- Fourmies
Fourmies
16,110 corpus weight
- Fourniret
Fourniret
16,109 corpus weight
- freed
freed
16,107 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Fourmies » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Fourmies |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #83,891 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Fourmies » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Fourmies is uncommon French at frequency #83,891 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Fourmies, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Fourmies, spelled F-O-U-R-M-I-E-S.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département du Nord.
- 2Canton français, situé dans le département du Nord.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Fourmies appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À Fourmies, dans la petite ville industrielle du Nord, le sang coule - et dans des conditions d'autant plus atroce que les victimes sont des enfants, des jeunes filles, des jeunes gens, de onze à vingt-deux ans.
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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