fourrures
\fu.ʁyʁ\
The verdict
“fourrures” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #26,012. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,012
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de fourrure.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fourrures · fourrures · French
fourrures · rank #26,012 · 11 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,012
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fourneau
Nearest frequency peer: fourneau (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « fourrures »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- forteresses
forteresses
73,992 corpus weight
- fourbe
fourbe
73,991 corpus weight
- fourneau
fourneau
73,990 corpus weight
- fourrures
fourrures
73,989 corpus weight
- fresh
fresh
73,988 corpus weight
- friction
friction
73,987 corpus weight
What this shows « fourrures » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | fourrures |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fu.ʁyʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #26,012 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « fourrures »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around fourrures (IPA \fu.ʁyʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #26,012 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de fourrure.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for fourrures, with forms such as "ffourrures", "forurures", and "fourrrues". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "fourrés", "fourrure", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is fourrures, spelled F-O-U-R-R-U-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de fourrure.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fourrures appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Marchant d’un pas ferme, l’homme au vieil ulster d’un roux pisseux coudoyait presque ceux dont, quelques jours plus tôt, il avait été l’égal — des hommes bien vêtus, frais et dispos à la mine fleurie — et des femmes exquises, délicieusement toilettées, extravagamment surchargées de fourrures et de bijoux, aux visages radieux et aux yeux pleins de mystère…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffourrures
- forurures
- fourrrues
- fourruers
- fourruress
- fourrurres
- fourrurse
- fourures
- foururres
- fuorrures
- ofurrures
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fourrures - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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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).