fureteur
\fyʁ.tœʁ\
The verdict
“fureteur” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui aime à fureter, à fouiner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fureteur · fureteur · French
fureteur · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "F" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fureteur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fyʁ.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “fureteur” se place dans la fréquence du français
Rare enough to double-check
fureteur is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \fyʁ.tœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui aime à fureter, à fouiner.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for fureteur, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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 fureteur, spelled F-U-R-E-T-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Qui aime à fureter, à fouiner.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fureteur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Se méfiant des yeux fureteurs de Madame Marmet, elle glissa dans sa poche la lettre à Le Ménil, comptant sur le hasard des promenades pour la couler dans une boîte.
Tout ce qui existe de documents, sa piété fureteuse, sa curiosité passionnée l’ont rassemblé.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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