fournier
\fuʁ.nje\
The verdict
“fournier” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,057. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,057
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui était chargé de cuire le pain dans un four collectif (ou four banal, appartenant au seigneur) sous l’Ancien Régime.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fournier · fournier · French
fournier · rank #11,057 · 11 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,057
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fouille
Nearest frequency peer: fouille (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « fournier »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- forestier
forestier
88,947 corpus weight
- forums
forums
88,946 corpus weight
- fouille
fouille
88,945 corpus weight
- fournier
fournier
88,944 corpus weight
- fragilité
fragilité
88,943 corpus weight
- franklin
franklin
88,942 corpus weight
What this shows « fournier » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fournier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fuʁ.nje\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #11,057 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « fournier »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around fournier (IPA \fuʁ.nje\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,057 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for fournier, with forms such as "ffournier", "forunier", and "founrier". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 14 confusable-pair relationships, "fournir", "fournit", "fournis", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is fournier, spelled F-O-U-R-N-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Celui qui était chargé de cuire le pain dans un four collectif (ou four banal, appartenant au seigneur) sous l’Ancien Régime.
- 2Celui qui travaille au four à pain.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fournier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les fourniers doivent cuire le pain de telle sorte & façon, que l’un pain ne touche l’autre, & qu’il ne soit mal cuit ou brûlé. Et au cas qu’il soit trouvé le contraire, le fournier doit prendre le pain, & en faire à son plaisir, & payer au seigneur du pain ce que le blé lui a coûté, & le quart davantage pour l’intérêt.
Le fournage était une redevance en pain ou en argent que les sujets banniers payaient au fournier ou boulanger du four banal pour la cuisson de leur pain .
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffournier
- forunier
- founrier
- fouriner
- fourneir
- fournierr
- fournire
- fournnier
- fourrnier
- fuornier
- ofurnier
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fournier - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).