fumier
\fy.mje\
The verdict
“fumier” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,886. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,886
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mélange des litières (paille, foin, etc.) et des déjections liquides et solides des chevaux et autres animaux d’élevage, décomposé par la fermentation sous l’action de micro-organismes, et utilisé ...
Corpus desk
Index FR-fumier · fumier · French
fumier · rank #16,886 · 8 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,886
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH franchit
Nearest frequency peer: franchit (-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 « fumier »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Foucault
Foucault
83,118 corpus weight
- Francesco
Francesco
83,117 corpus weight
- franchit
franchit
83,116 corpus weight
- fumier
fumier
83,115 corpus weight
- fusionner
fusionner
83,114 corpus weight
- gagnait
gagnait
83,112 corpus weight
What this shows « fumier » 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 | fumier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fy.mje\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #16,886 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « fumier »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around fumier (IPA \fy.mje\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,886 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for fumier, with forms such as "ffumier", "fmuier", and "fuimer". 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 15 confusable-pair relationships, "furie", "fumiers", "fier", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is fumier, spelled F-U-M-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Mélange des litières (paille, foin, etc.) et des déjections liquides et solides des chevaux et autres animaux d’élevage, décomposé par la fermentation sous l’action de micro-organismes, et utilisé comme engrais et amendement.
- 2Fumière ; tas de fumier que l’on trouvait dans les cours de ferme.
- 3Personnage odieux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fumier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle semblait faite pour glisser, en robe blanche, dans des paysages liturgiques […] En réalité, elle trayait les vaches, cette âme, elle crochait le fumier dans la cour, ce rêve.
Il avait réussi à prendre quelques photos : des CRS à moitié endormis, bottés et casqués, le Mauser lance-grenades à la bretelle, rencognés, non loin du CHU et de la fac de droit, comme une poignée d’oiseaux mouillés, sous les grimaces provocatrices et vengeresses des masques de pierre du vieil hôtel de Cerisy ; un garde-mobile ronflant la bouche ouverte,…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffumier
- fmuier
- fuimer
- fumeir
- fumierr
- fumire
- fummier
- ufmier
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fumier - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).