fourrée

\fu.ʁe\

/\fu.ʁe\/ noun

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The verdict

“fourrée” is uncommon French (frequency #53,964 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#53,964
frequency rank, French
3,276
“F” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pièce de monnaie constituée d'un métal quelconque plaqué d’or ou d'argent.

Corpus desk

Index FR-fourree · fourrée · French

fourrée · rank #53,964 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #53,964
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,276
  • PHOTO-FINISH Foncia

Nearest frequency peer: Foncia (-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 « fourrée »

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 « fourrée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for fourrée
PropertyValue
Headwordfourrée
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\fu.ʁe\
Letters7
Frequency rank#53,964
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « fourrée » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.fourréetombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « Foncia » (#53,963), « florentins » (#53,962), « fleuristes » (#53,961). Parmi 3,276 lemmes en « F », « fourrée » est au #53,964. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

fourrée is uncommon French at frequency #53,964 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fu.ʁe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pièce de monnaie constituée d'un métal quelconque plaqué d’or ou d'argent.".

We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for fourrée, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is fourrée, spelled F-O-U-R-R-É-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pièce de monnaie constituée d'un métal quelconque plaqué d’or ou d'argent.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how fourrée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Le monnayage d’argent de Dyrrachion n'est représenté dans ce trésor que par quatre drachmes (trois fourrées) et quatre hémidrachmes (une fourrée).

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 "fourrée"?
"fourrée" is spelled F-O-U-R-R-É-E. The IPA pronunciation is \fu.ʁe\.
What does "fourrée" mean?
As a noun, "fourrée" means: Pièce de monnaie constituée d'un métal quelconque plaqué d’or ou d'argent.
How do you pronounce "fourrée"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "fourrée" is \fu.ʁe\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "fourrée" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list