fourré
\fu.ʁe\
The verdict
“fourré” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #24,597. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,597
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vêtu de fourrure.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fourre · fourré · French
fourré · rank #24,597 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,597
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH focalise
Nearest frequency peer: focalise (-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 « fourré »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- flexibles
flexibles
75,407 corpus weight
- flottante
flottante
75,406 corpus weight
- focalise
focalise
75,405 corpus weight
- fourré
fourré
75,404 corpus weight
- foute
foute
75,403 corpus weight
- froidement
froidement
75,402 corpus weight
What this shows « fourré » 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 | fourré |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fu.ʁe\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #24,597 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « fourré »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around fourré (IPA \fu.ʁe\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #24,597 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 8 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for fourré, with forms such as "ffourré", "foruré", and "fourre". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "fours", "furie", "foute", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 fourré, spelled F-O-U-R-R-É.
Definition
- 1Vêtu de fourrure.
- 2Garni de fourrure.
- 3Garni intérieurement.
- 4(Légèrement péjoratif) Bien présent à l'intérieur de, en parlant d'une personne externe.
- 5Se dit d’un coup porté et reçu en même temps que l’adversaire.
- 6Perfide.
- 7Dont l'intérieur est de qualité inférieure. Faux.
- 8Relatif aux fourrés.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fourré appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je reconnus derrière la glace Mme Trépof que deux chevaux noirs et un cocher fourré comme un boyard menaient grand train.
Des gants fourrés.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffourré
- foruré
- fourre
- fouré
- fourér
- fuorré
- ofurré
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fourré - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "fourré", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).