fourrière
\fu.ʁjɛʁ\
The verdict
“fourrière” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,071. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,071
- frequency rank, French
- 137,178
- “F” headwords
- 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.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fourriere · fourrière · French
fourrière · rank #27,071 · 11 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,071
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 137,178
- PHOTO-FINISH found
Nearest frequency peer: found (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “fourrière”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- foncièrement
foncièrement
72,933 corpus weight
- foraine
foraine
72,932 corpus weight
- found
found
72,931 corpus weight
- fourrière
fourrière
72,930 corpus weight
- Frederick
Frederick
72,929 corpus weight
- funny
funny
72,927 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “fourrière” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around fourrière (IPA \fu.ʁjɛʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,071 among 137,178 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for fourrière, with forms such as "ffourrière", "forurière", and "fourirère". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "fourrure", "Fourvière", "fourrer", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is fourrière, spelled F-O-U-R-R-I-È-R-E.
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.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "fourrière", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.