fourreaux
\fu.ʁo\
The verdict
“fourreaux” is uncommon French (frequency #78,439 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,439
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de fourreau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fourreaux · fourreaux · French
fourreaux · rank #78,439 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,439
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH forés
Nearest frequency peer: forés (-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 « fourreaux »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- formeraient
formeraient
21,565 corpus weight
- forçaient
forçaient
21,564 corpus weight
- forés
forés
21,563 corpus weight
- fourreaux
fourreaux
21,562 corpus weight
- friperies
friperies
21,561 corpus weight
- frisch
frisch
21,560 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fourreaux » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fourreaux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fu.ʁo\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #78,439 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fourreaux » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fourreaux is uncommon French at frequency #78,439 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fu.ʁo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de fourreau.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for fourreaux, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is fourreaux, spelled F-O-U-R-R-E-A-U-X.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de fourreau.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fourreaux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais ce qui ne se comprendra jamais à Paris, où les femmes sont serrées dans leurs robes comme des demoiselles dans leurs fourreaux annelés, c’est le délicieux laisser-aller avec lequel cette belle fille de la Toscane portait le vêtement français, elle l’avait italianisé.
On était à la fin du mois d’août, au déclin de l’été. Déjà les fourreaux vides des châtaigniers jaunis commençaient à joncher les routes blanches.
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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