fourragère

\fu.ʁa.ʒɛʁ\

/\fu.ʁa.ʒɛʁ\/ adj

The verdict

“fourragère” is uncommon French (frequency #63,006 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#63,006
frequency rank, French
3,276
“F” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de fourrager.

Corpus desk

Index FR-fourragere · fourragère · French

fourragère · rank #63,006 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #63,006
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,276
  • PHOTO-FINISH fournissez

Nearest frequency peer: fournissez (-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 « fourragère »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fourragère » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for fourragère
PropertyValue
Headwordfourragère
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\fu.ʁa.ʒɛʁ\
Letters10
Frequency rank#63,006
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « fourragère » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).fourragèretombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « fournissez » (#63,005), « Franconie » (#63,007), « fourberies » (#63,004). Parmi 3,276 lemmes en « F », « fourragère » est au #63,006. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

fourragère is uncommon French at frequency #63,006 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \fu.ʁa.ʒɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de fourrager.".

fourragère has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is fourragère, spelled F-O-U-R-R-A-G-È-R-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Féminin singulier de fourrager.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "fourragère"?
"fourragère" is spelled F-O-U-R-R-A-G-È-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \fu.ʁa.ʒɛʁ\.
What does "fourragère" mean?
As an adjective, "fourragère" means: Féminin singulier de fourrager.
How do you pronounce "fourragère"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "fourragère" is \fu.ʁa.ʒɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "fourragère" come from?
"fourragère" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "fourragère", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list