fourvoyé
\fuʁ.vwa.je\
The verdict
“fourvoyé” is uncommon French (frequency #77,529 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,529
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé masculin singulier du verbe fourvoyer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fourvoye · fourvoyé · French
fourvoyé · rank #77,529 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,529
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fournirent
Nearest frequency peer: fournirent (-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 « fourvoyé »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- flanque
flanque
22,476 corpus weight
- flicage
flicage
22,475 corpus weight
- fournirent
fournirent
22,473 corpus weight
- fourvoyé
fourvoyé
22,472 corpus weight
- fractales
fractales
22,470 corpus weight
- fragmentés
fragmentés
22,469 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fourvoyé » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fourvoyé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fuʁ.vwa.je\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #77,529 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fourvoyé » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fourvoyé is uncommon French at frequency #77,529 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \fuʁ.vwa.je\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe passé masculin singulier du verbe fourvoyer.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for fourvoyé in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is fourvoyé, spelled F-O-U-R-V-O-Y-É.
Definition
- 1Participe passé masculin singulier du verbe fourvoyer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fourvoyé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ne me raccompagnez pas, je trouverai bien le chemin. Il le trouva, en effet, grâce à l’obligeance d’une sœur souriante et muette qui l’extrayit des cuisines, où il s’était fourvoyé, pour le conduire jusqu’à la lourde porte bardée de ferrures.
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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