fourneau
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#26,011
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
fourneau is aFrenchnoun. It means: Appareil fixe ou portatif, généralement en tôle ou en fonte, servant à la cuisson des aliments, à faire bouillir de l’eau, etc. Pronounced \fuʁ.no\. Often confused with fournée and fourreau.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fourneau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fuʁ.no\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #26,011 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for fourneau is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fuʁ.no\. Corpus data places it at rank #26,011 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for fourneau, with forms such as "ffourneau", "foruneau", and "founreau". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "fournée", "fourreau", "fourneaux", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is fourneau, spelled F-O-U-R-N-E-A-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Appareil fixe ou portatif, généralement en tôle ou en fonte, servant à la cuisson des aliments, à faire bouillir de l’eau, etc.
- 2Petite construction de maçonnerie ou de brique, soit portative, soit à demeure, et à plusieurs cavités, dans lesquelles on mettait du charbon, de la braise, pour cuire et chauffer les mets.
- 3Cuisinière.
- 4Récipient qui sert à soumettre diverses substances à l’action du feu.
- 5Grand four où l’on fond le verre ou les métaux.
- 6Cavité pratiquée dans une masse et chargée d’un explosif, pour faire sauter un rocher, une muraille, une partie de terrain ou un ouvrage de fortification.
- 7La partie évasée d’une pipe dans laquelle on fait brûler le tabac.
- 8Vagabond, mendiant (par métonymie : habitué au fourneau de charité) ; d'où misérable, bon à rien, naïf, imbécile.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ffourneau,foruneau,founreau,fourenau,fournaeu,fourneua,fournneau,fourrneau,fuorneau,ofurneau
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for fourneau
Misspelling Variants of "fourneau"
Frequency rank: #26,011 in French
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