furax
\fy.ʁaks\
The verdict
“furax” is uncommon French (frequency #52,078 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,078
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Furieux, très fâché.
Corpus desk
Index FR-furax · furax · French
furax · rank #52,078 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,078
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fugues
Nearest frequency peer: fugues (-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 « furax »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- frai
frai
47,926 corpus weight
- fugues
fugues
47,924 corpus weight
- furax
furax
47,923 corpus weight
- gam
gam
47,922 corpus weight
- Gantois
Gantois
47,921 corpus weight
- gazouillis
gazouillis
47,920 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « furax » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | furax |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fy.ʁaks\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #52,078 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « furax » en français
Rare enough to double-check
furax is uncommon French at frequency #52,078 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \fy.ʁaks\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Furieux, très fâché.".
furax doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is furax, spelled F-U-R-A-X.
Definition
- 1Furieux, très fâché.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how furax appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle nous a dérangés pour rien en pleine partie de pétanque, j’étais furax.
Idiot ! Je n’avais pas pensé à ça. C’est une gosse qui donne une leçon à un policier. J’étais furax.
Antonyms
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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