fourreau
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#33,693
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
fourreau is aFrenchnoun. It means: Enveloppe de métal, de cuir ou d’étoffe ajustée à la forme allongée de l’objet qu’elle renferme et destinée à le protéger quand on ne s’en sert plus. Pronounced \fu.ʁo\. Often confused with fourrer and fourrés.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fourreau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fu.ʁo\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #33,693 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for fourreau is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fu.ʁo\. Corpus data places it at rank #33,693 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for fourreau, with forms such as "ffourreau", "forureau", and "foureau". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "fourrer", "fourrés", "fourré", 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 fourreau, spelled F-O-U-R-R-E-A-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Enveloppe de métal, de cuir ou d’étoffe ajustée à la forme allongée de l’objet qu’elle renferme et destinée à le protéger quand on ne s’en sert plus.
- 2Choses rappelant la forme du fourreau.
- 3Choses rappelant la forme du fourreau.
- 4Choses rappelant la forme du fourreau.
- 5Choses rappelant la forme du fourreau.
- 6Choses rappelant la forme du fourreau.
- 7Chez les animaux, protection de peau contenant le pénis lorsqu’il est rétracté au repos.
- 8Bande de tissu, portant l’indication d’un grade, que l’on glisse sur une patte d’épaule.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ffourreau,forureau,foureau,fourerau,fourraeu,fourreua,fuorreau,ofurreau
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for fourreau
Misspelling Variants of "fourreau"
Frequency rank: #33,693 in French
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