fourrière
\fu.ʁjɛʁ\
The verdict
“fourrière” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #27,071 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #27,071
- frequency rank, French
- 9
- letters
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Endroit où l’on conservait le fourrage et le combustible tel que le bois et le charbon.
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 | fourrière |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fu.ʁjɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #27,071 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “fourrière” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for fourrière is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fu.ʁjɛʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #27,071 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for fourrière, with forms such as "ffourrière", "forurière", and "fourirère". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "fourrure", "Fourvière", "fourrer", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is fourrière, spelled F-O-U-R-R-I-È-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Endroit où l’on conservait le fourrage et le combustible tel que le bois et le charbon.
- 2Office royal donnant la responsabilité à ses titulaires d’assurer vivres et logement de la Cour en déplacement.
- 3Messagère, avant-courrière.
- 4Lieu de dépôt où la police a le droit de faire conduire les animaux errants, les voitures délaissées sur la voie publique, etc. À l’origine il ne s’agissait que d’animaux errants qui étaient mis en un lieu où on leur donnait du fourrage, dont le prix était ensuite réclamé au propriétaire.
- 5Zone en bordure de parcelle que l’agriculteur utilise pour effectuer ses demi-tours et qui est travaillée perpendiculairement au sens principal du travail du sol.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ffourrière,forurière,fourirère,fourière,fourriere,fourrirèe,fourrièer,fourrièrre,fourrèire,fuorrière,ofurrière
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fourrière - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Edit distance from "fourrière"
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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PlainSpell, “fourrière, French word data” (May 6, 2026). Derived from Wiktionary (kaikki.org, CC BY-SA) and an open word-frequency list. https://plainspell.com/fr/mot/fourriere
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Using “fourrière”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is F-O-U-R-R-I-È-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \fu.ʁjɛʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “fourrure” - see the side-by-side comparison. fourrière vs fourrure
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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