fumeuse
\fy.møz\
The verdict
“fumeuse” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #43,955. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,955
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Femme qui fume du tabac ou d’autres substances psychoactives.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fumeuse · fumeuse · French
fumeuse · rank #43,955 · 9 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,955
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH frottis
Nearest frequency peer: frottis (-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 « fumeuse »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- fracasse
fracasse
56,050 corpus weight
- frondeur
frondeur
56,048 corpus weight
- frottis
frottis
56,047 corpus weight
- fumeuse
fumeuse
56,046 corpus weight
- Funds
Funds
56,045 corpus weight
- garnies
garnies
56,043 corpus weight
What this shows « fumeuse » 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 | fumeuse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fy.møz\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #43,955 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « fumeuse »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around fumeuse (IPA \fy.møz\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #43,955 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for fumeuse, with forms such as "ffumeuse", "fmueuse", and "fuemuse". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "furieuse", "fumée", "fumes", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 fumeuse, spelled F-U-M-E-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1Femme qui fume du tabac ou d’autres substances psychoactives.
- 2Femme qui fume de la nourriture pour la conserver ou lui donner un goût de fumée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fumeuse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les accros à la nicotine ont du mal à croire à l’existence de cette étrange créature : la fumeuse occasionnelle.
Les petites bêtes des tropiques : cafards, margouillats, araignées, mille-pattes accourent près de la fumeuse, attirées par l’opium.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffumeuse
- fmueuse
- fuemuse
- fumesue
- fumeues
- fumeusse
- fummeuse
- fumuese
- ufmeuse
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fumeuse - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "fumeuse", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).