fourquet
\fuʁ.kɛ\
The verdict
“fourquet” is uncommon French (frequency #63,767 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,767
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pelle en fer, en inox, en cuivre, anciennement en bois, percée dans son milieu de deux ou plusieurs grands yeux longitudinaux, avec laquelle, dans les brasseries, on délaye la farine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fourquet · fourquet · French
fourquet · rank #63,767 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,767
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fourrées
Nearest frequency peer: fourrées (+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 « fourquet »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fonctionner…
fonctionneront
36,238 corpus weight
- fore
fore
36,236 corpus weight
- fourquet
fourquet
36,234 corpus weight
- fourrées
fourrées
36,233 corpus weight
- franchissait
franchissait
36,232 corpus weight
- franglais
franglais
36,231 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fourquet » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fourquet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fuʁ.kɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #63,767 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fourquet » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fourquet is uncommon French at frequency #63,767 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fuʁ.kɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pelle en fer, en inox, en cuivre, anciennement en bois, percée dans son milieu de deux ou plusieurs grands yeux longitudinaux, avec laquelle, dans les brasseries, on délaye la farine.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for fourquet, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 fourquet, spelled F-O-U-R-Q-U-E-T.
Definition
- 1Pelle en fer, en inox, en cuivre, anciennement en bois, percée dans son milieu de deux ou plusieurs grands yeux longitudinaux, avec laquelle, dans les brasseries, on délaye la farine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fourquet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des ouvriers armés d’un fourquet , espèce d’instrument de fer ou de cuivre percé dans son milieu de deux grands yeux en longueur, écartent la farine vis-à-vis de ces trous, jusqu’à ce qu'ils aient atteint l’eau, qui s’enlève en masse.
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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