fourrier
\fu.ʁje\
The verdict
“fourrier” is uncommon French (frequency #60,802 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,802
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui précède, qui devance.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fourrier · fourrier · French
fourrier · rank #60,802 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,802
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH formulent
Nearest frequency peer: formulent (-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 « fourrier »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- folios
folios
39,203 corpus weight
- fora
fora
39,201 corpus weight
- formulent
formulent
39,200 corpus weight
- fourrier
fourrier
39,199 corpus weight
- frimer
frimer
39,197 corpus weight
- Fréchette
Fréchette
39,196 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fourrier » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fourrier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fu.ʁje\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #60,802 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fourrier » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fourrier is uncommon French at frequency #60,802 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \fu.ʁje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui précède, qui devance.".
fourrier 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 tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented 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 fourrier, spelled F-O-U-R-R-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Qui précède, qui devance.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fourrier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Peut-être, un jour que la mort nous tâtera, que la maladie avant-courrière et fourrière nous tiendra fiévreux et douloureux, peut-être miséreux et solitaires, les reverrons-nous, non sans attendrissement et une sorte de triste — ô bien triste ! — gratitude, ces longues avenues de lits bien blancs, ces longs rideaux blancs, car tout est long et blanc, en q…
Synonyms
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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