fourrage
\fu.ʁaʒ\
The verdict
“fourrage” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #30,164. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,164
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Paille, foin et toute autre espèce d’herbe qu’on donne pour nourriture aux bestiaux, aux chevaux, etc., lorsqu’on ne les fait pas paître.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fourrage · fourrage · French
fourrage · rank #30,164 · 9 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,164
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fourches
Nearest frequency peer: fourches (-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 « fourrage »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- forcez
forcez
69,839 corpus weight
- fourches
fourches
69,838 corpus weight
- fourrage
fourrage
69,837 corpus weight
- fourrés
fourrés
69,836 corpus weight
- Frans
Frans
69,835 corpus weight
- friandises
friandises
69,834 corpus weight
What this shows « fourrage » 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 | fourrage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fu.ʁaʒ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #30,164 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « fourrage »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around fourrage (IPA \fu.ʁaʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #30,164 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for fourrage, with forms such as "ffourrage", "forurage", and "fourage". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "fourré", "foutage", "fourrure", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is fourrage, spelled F-O-U-R-R-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Paille, foin et toute autre espèce d’herbe qu’on donne pour nourriture aux bestiaux, aux chevaux, etc., lorsqu’on ne les fait pas paître.
- 2Provisions pour les chevaux de l’armée.
- 3Foin ou herbe qui servait autrefois à bourrer les canons.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fourrage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les prairies sont assez vastes ; elles occupent le fond de la vallée et toutes les parties facilement irrigables. Elles fournissent des fourrages abondants et très réputés que l'on exporte.
Les herbes, nourriture première des herbivores, sont de qualité différente selon les lieux qui les produisent, et les fourrages ne sont pas également composés partout.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffourrage
- forurage
- fourage
- fourarge
- fourraeg
- fourragge
- fourrgae
- fuorrage
- ofurrage
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fourrage - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
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