fournil
\fuʁ.nil\
The verdict
“fournil” is uncommon French (frequency #74,011 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,011
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lieu où est le four et où l’on pétrit la pâte ; lieu de travail du boulanger.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fournil · fournil · French
fournil · rank #74,011 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,011
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fractionner
Nearest frequency peer: fractionner (+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 « fournil »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fortifiant
fortifiant
25,994 corpus weight
- fouettard
fouettard
25,992 corpus weight
- fournil
fournil
25,990 corpus weight
- fractionner
fractionner
25,989 corpus weight
- Fransaskois
Fransaskois
25,988 corpus weight
- fraternels
fraternels
25,987 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fournil » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fournil |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fuʁ.nil\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #74,011 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fournil » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fournil is uncommon French at frequency #74,011 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fuʁ.nil\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Lieu où est le four et où l’on pétrit la pâte ; lieu de travail du boulanger.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for fournil, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 fournil, spelled F-O-U-R-N-I-L.
Definition
- 1Lieu où est le four et où l’on pétrit la pâte ; lieu de travail du boulanger.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fournil appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je lui ai donné la clef du fournil, et il entre ici en mon absence, bricole un peu partout.
C’était uniquement pour le bois qu’il avait construit ce hangar. Le bois du fournil, évidemment, puisqu’en ce temps-là il ne cuisait qu’au bois.
This word in other languages
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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