fureter
French, verb/fyʁ.te/
fureter is spelled F-U-R-E-T-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 7 million words in written French, the 87,470th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fureter is a French verb meaning “to ferret (around, about); to rummage” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Chasser au furet”.
What does fureter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to ferret (around, about); to rummage
- 2
to browse (a website)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Chasser au furet. 2. Fouiller, chercher partout avec soin, curiosité. 3. S’empresser à savoir des nouvelles de tout, chercher à satisfaire sa curiosité sur tout. 4. Naviguer sur le Web.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of fureter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- furetant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- fureté participle past
- furète first-person indicative present
- furètes indicative present second-person
- furetons first-person indicative plural
- furetez indicative plural present
- furètent indicative plural present
- furetais first-person imperfect indicative
- furetait imperfect indicative singular
- furetions first-person imperfect indicative
- furetiez imperfect indicative plural
- furetaient imperfect indicative plural
- furetai first-person historic indicative
- furetas historic indicative past
- fureta historic indicative past
- furetâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce fureter?
- /fyʁ.te/
- \fyʁ.te\
- \fy.ʁə.te\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to fureter
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is fureter in French?
fureter appears about once in every 7 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).