fourrées
\fu.ʁe\
The verdict
“fourrées” is uncommon French (frequency #63,768 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,768
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de fourré.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fourrees · fourrées · French
fourrées · rank #63,768 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,768
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fourquet
Nearest frequency peer: fourquet (-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 « fourrées »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fore
fore
36,236 corpus weight
- fourquet
fourquet
36,234 corpus weight
- fourrées
fourrées
36,233 corpus weight
- franchissait
franchissait
36,232 corpus weight
- franglais
franglais
36,231 corpus weight
- freaks
freaks
36,230 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fourrées » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fourrées |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fu.ʁe\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #63,768 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fourrées » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fourrées is uncommon French at frequency #63,768 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \fu.ʁe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de fourré.".
fourrées doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented 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 fourrées, spelled F-O-U-R-R-É-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de fourré.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fourrées appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ses bras, à la fois mignons et potelés, sortaient de manches à sabots fourrées de dentelles.
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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