furie

\fy.ʁi\

/\fy.ʁi\/ noun

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The verdict

“furie” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #23,873. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#23,873
frequency rank, French
3,276
“F” headwords
6
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Divinité infernale dont la fonction était de tourmenter les méchants, les criminels, soit dans les enfers, soit sur la terre.

Corpus desk

Index FR-furie · furie · French

furie · rank #23,873 · 6 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #23,873
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 6 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,276
  • PHOTO-FINISH Frankenstein

Nearest frequency peer: Frankenstein (-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 « furie »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « furie » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

furie vs fury
60% similar
furie vs fuse
60% similar
furie vs fusil
60% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for furie
PropertyValue
Headwordfurie
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\fy.ʁi\
Letters5
Frequency rank#23,873
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « furie »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).furiese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « Frankenstein » (#23,872), « gais » (#23,874), « fractions » (#23,871). Parmi 3,276 lemmes en « F », « furie » est au #23,873. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 6 spelling variants around furie (IPA \fy.ʁi\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #23,873 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 13 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for furie, with forms such as "ffurie", "fruie", and "fuire". 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, "fury", "fuse", "fusil", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is furie, spelled F-U-R-I-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Divinité infernale dont la fonction était de tourmenter les méchants, les criminels, soit dans les enfers, soit sur la terre.
  2. 2
    Femme très méchante et très emportée.
  3. 3
    Emportement de colère, par référence à la fureur vengeresse qui animait incessamment les Furies.
  4. 4
    Comportement sanguinaire.
  5. 5
    Simple mécontentement.
  6. 6
    Mouvement violent et impétueux d’un animal irrité.
  7. 7
    Impétuosité de colère, d’attaque.
  8. 8
    Impétuosité d’action, action rapide.
  9. 9
    Passion excessive et déraisonnable.
  10. 10
    Grande violence des choses.
  11. 11
    État le plus violent d’une chose, sa plus grande intensité.
  12. 12
    Morceau d’un mouvement vif, dans un ballet, avec un caractère analogue à l’action des passions violentes.
  13. 13
    Ancienne étoffe de soie des Indes, ainsi nommée des figures hideuses qui y étaient imprimées.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how furie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Qui que tu sois, furie, prêtre ou démon, répondit Front-de-Bœuf, tu mens par la gorge !
  2. Ô trahison conçue au sein d’une furie !

Synonyms

dragongendarmegorgonegrognasseharengèreharpiemaritornemégèretricoteuse

This word in other languages

fury(English)furia(Español)fureur(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ffurie
  • fruie
  • fuire
  • furei
  • furrie
  • ufrie

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of furie - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

ffurie1fruie2fuire2furei2furrie1ufrie2
Edit distance from "furie"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "furie"?
"furie" is spelled F-U-R-I-E. The IPA pronunciation is \fy.ʁi\.
What does "furie" mean?
As a noun, "furie" means: Divinité infernale dont la fonction était de tourmenter les méchants, les criminels, soit dans les enfers, soit sur la terre.
What words are commonly confused with "furie"?
"furie" is commonly confused with "fury", "fuse", "fusil". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "furie"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "furie" is \fy.ʁi\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "furie" come from?
"furie" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "furie", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

gueux#23,881Guido#23,882imams#23,892duras#23,840

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).

feng6 variantsJoëlle6 variantskris6 variantsmaple6 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list