fourreau
\fu.ʁo\
The verdict
“fourreau” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #33,693. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,693
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 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.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fourreau · fourreau · French
fourreau · rank #33,693 · 8 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,693
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fraternel
Nearest frequency peer: fraternel (+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 « fourreau »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- fières
fières
66,312 corpus weight
- forgée
forgée
66,311 corpus weight
- fortificati…
fortification
66,310 corpus weight
- fourreau
fourreau
66,308 corpus weight
- fraternel
fraternel
66,307 corpus weight
- fumigènes
fumigènes
66,305 corpus weight
What this shows « fourreau » 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 | 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) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « fourreau »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around fourreau (IPA \fu.ʁo\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #33,693 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 8 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for fourreau, with forms such as "ffourreau", "forureau", and "foureau". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "fourrer", "fourrés", "fourré", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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. The correct French form is fourreau, spelled F-O-U-R-R-E-A-U.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fourreau appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’appartiens à cette génération née avec le siècle, qui, nourrie de bulletins par l’Empereur, avait toujours devant les yeux une épée nue, et vint la prendre au moment même où la France la remettait dans le fourreau des Bourbons.
N’importe, dit Coconnas, j’ai bien de la peine à remettre mon épée dans le fourreau avant de m’être assuré qu’elle pique aussi bien que les lardoires de ce gaillard-là.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffourreau
- forureau
- foureau
- fourerau
- fourraeu
- fourreua
- fuorreau
- ofurreau
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fourreau - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).