fournis

/\fuʁ.ni\/ adj

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#7,831

in French word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

16

similar word pairs

fournis is anFrenchadj. It means: Masculin pluriel de fourni. Pronounced \fuʁ.ni\. It ranks #7,831 in French word frequency. Often confused with fours and fournit.

Key facts for fournis
PropertyValue
Headwordfournis
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\fuʁ.ni\
Letters7
Frequency rank#7,831
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs16
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of fournis in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for fournis is 7 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fuʁ.ni\. Corpus data places it at rank #7,831 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Masculin pluriel de fourni.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for fournis, with forms such as "ffournis", "forunis", and "founris". 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 16 confusable-pair relationships, "fours", "fournit", "foutais", and more, 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 fournis, spelled F-O-U-R-N-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Masculin pluriel de fourni.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ffournis,forunis,founris,fourins,fourniss,fournnis,fournsi,fourrnis,fuornis,ofurnis

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for fournis

Misspelling Variants of "fournis"

ffournis8forunis7founris7fourins7fourniss8fournnis8fournsi7fourrnis8
Misspelling Variants of "fournis"

Frequency rank: #7,831 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "fournis"?
"fournis" is spelled F-O-U-R-N-I-S. The IPA pronunciation is \fuʁ.ni\.
What does "fournis" mean?
As an adj, "fournis" means: Masculin pluriel de fourni.
What words are commonly confused with "fournis"?
"fournis" is commonly confused with "fours", "fournit", "foutais". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "fournis"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "fournis" is \fuʁ.ni\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "fournis" come from?
"fournis" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.