fourmillements
\fuʁ.mij.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“fourmillements” is uncommon French (frequency #88,642 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,642
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de fourmillement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fourmillements · fourmillements · French
fourmillements · rank #88,642 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,642
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH formative
Nearest frequency peer: formative (-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 « fourmillements »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- forcenée
forcenée
11,361 corpus weight
- formative
formative
11,360 corpus weight
- fourmilleme…
fourmillements
11,359 corpus weight
- FranceAgriM…
FranceAgriMer
11,358 corpus weight
- franchissons
franchissons
11,357 corpus weight
- Francisca
Francisca
11,356 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fourmillements » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fourmillements |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fuʁ.mij.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #88,642 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fourmillements » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fourmillements is uncommon French at frequency #88,642 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fuʁ.mij.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de fourmillement.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for fourmillements, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is fourmillements, spelled F-O-U-R-M-I-L-L-E-M-E-N-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de fourmillement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fourmillements appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il agita ses jambes comme pour les débarrasser des fourmillements qui les parcouraient.
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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