fumet
\fy.mɛ\
The verdict
“fumet” is uncommon French (frequency #55,301 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,301
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Exhalaison de certains vins et de certains mets agréables à l’odorat.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fumet · fumet · French
fumet · rank #55,301 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,301
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fréquentable
Nearest frequency peer: fréquentable (-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 « fumet »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Frankfurter
Frankfurter
44,704 corpus weight
- Franprix
Franprix
44,703 corpus weight
- fréquentable
fréquentable
44,701 corpus weight
- fumet
fumet
44,700 corpus weight
- fuyard
fuyard
44,699 corpus weight
- gagnerons
gagnerons
44,698 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fumet » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « fumet » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fumet is uncommon French at frequency #55,301 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fy.mɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for fumet, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. 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.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is fumet, spelled F-U-M-E-T.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fumet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce vin a un bon fumet, voyons maintenant quel goût il a.
Voilà un faisan qui a du fumet, j'en salive d'avance!
This word in other languages
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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