fourmillent
\fuʁ.mij\
The verdict
“fourmillent” is uncommon French (frequency #71,530 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,530
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de fourmiller.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fourmillent · fourmillent · French
fourmillent · rank #71,530 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,530
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH Frachon
Nearest frequency peer: Frachon (+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 « fourmillent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fissurée
fissurée
28,475 corpus weight
- formulant
formulant
28,474 corpus weight
- foro
foro
28,473 corpus weight
- fourmillent
fourmillent
28,471 corpus weight
- Frachon
Frachon
28,470 corpus weight
- Fresnoy
Fresnoy
28,468 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fourmillent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fourmillent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fuʁ.mij\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #71,530 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fourmillent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fourmillent is uncommon French at frequency #71,530 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \fuʁ.mij\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for fourmillent, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is fourmillent, spelled F-O-U-R-M-I-L-L-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de fourmiller.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de fourmiller.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).