fumet
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#55,301
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
fumet is aFrenchnoun. It means: Exhalaison de certains vins et de certains mets agréables à l’odorat. Pronounced \fy.mɛ\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fumet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fy.mɛ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #55,301 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for fumet is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fy.mɛ\. Corpus data places it at rank #55,301 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.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for fumet in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 fumet, spelled F-U-M-E-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Exhalaison de certains vins et de certains mets agréables à l’odorat.
- 2Bouillon obtenu par réduction de la sauce de cuisson de poisson, gibier, volaille, champignons, truffes etc. et destiné à corser le goût d’une préparation culinaire.
- 3Odeur caractéristique, agréable ou non.
- 4Exhalaison du corps de certains animaux, qui sert aux chiens dans leur poursuite.
- 5Ce qui caractérise une personne ou une chose, ce qui s’en dégage.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #55,301 in French
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