furent
\fyʁ\
The verdict
“furent” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,593. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,593
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de être.
Corpus desk
Index FR-furent · furent · French
furent · rank #1,593 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,593
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH entretien
Nearest frequency peer: entretien (-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 « furent »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- découvert
découvert
98,411 corpus weight
- empêcher
empêcher
98,410 corpus weight
- entretien
entretien
98,409 corpus weight
- furent
furent
98,408 corpus weight
- gagne
gagne
98,407 corpus weight
- immédiateme…
immédiatement
98,406 corpus weight
What this shows « furent » 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 | furent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fyʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,593 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « furent »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around furent (IPA \fyʁ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #1,593 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de être.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for furent, with forms such as "ffurent", "fruent", and "fuernt". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "furet", "fureur", "fuyant", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is furent, spelled F-U-R-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de être.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how furent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le mécanicien redoute la machine que le voyageur admire, et les officiers étaient un peu les chauffeurs de la locomotive napoléonienne, s’ils n’en furent pas le charbon.
Nous espérâmes, poursuit-elle dans son mémoire, désénivrer le peuple avignonais du sang innocent, dont il s’était abreuvé si lâchement et avec tant de cruautés ; nous offrîmes à sa municipalité des secours, et ils ne furent point acceptés.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffurent
- fruent
- fuernt
- furennt
- furentt
- furetn
- furnet
- furrent
- ufrent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of furent - 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).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).