fureur
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#12,164
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
14
similar word pairs
fureur is aFrenchnoun. It means: Égarement d’esprit qui tient de la rage et de la frénésie. Pronounced \fy.ʁœʁ\. Often confused with futur and furieux.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fureur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fy.ʁœʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #12,164 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for fureur is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fy.ʁœʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #12,164 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for fureur, with forms such as "ffureur", "frueur", and "fuerur". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 14 confusable-pair relationships, "futur", "furieux", "fleur", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is fureur, spelled F-U-R-E-U-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Égarement d’esprit qui tient de la rage et de la frénésie.
- 2Extrême colère.
- 3Colère de Dieu.
- 4Émotion et agitation violente qui s’empare d’un animal.
- 5Agitation violente de certaines choses.
- 6Habitude importune, nuisible, etc., que quelqu’un a de faire une certaine chose.
- 7Transport qui élève l’esprit au-dessus de lui-même et qui fait faire ou dire des choses extraordinaires.
- 8Passion excessive, démesurée pour une personne ou pour une chose.
- 9Transports frénétiques, emportement, excès auxquels on se livre dans la fureur, dans la colère, etc.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ffureur,frueur,fuerur,fureru,fureurr,furreur,furuer,ufreur
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "fureur"
Frequency rank: #12,164 in French
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