furie
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#23,873
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
furie is aFrenchnoun. It means: Divinité infernale dont la fonction était de tourmenter les méchants, les criminels, soit dans les enfers, soit sur la terre. Pronounced \fy.ʁi\. Often confused with fury and fuse.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | furie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fy.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #23,873 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for furie is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fy.ʁi\. Corpus data places it at rank #23,873 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 13 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for furie, with forms such as "ffurie", "fruie", and "fuire". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "fury", "fuse", "fusil", 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 furie, spelled F-U-R-I-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Divinité infernale dont la fonction était de tourmenter les méchants, les criminels, soit dans les enfers, soit sur la terre.
- 2Femme très méchante et très emportée.
- 3Emportement de colère, par référence à la fureur vengeresse qui animait incessamment les Furies.
- 4Comportement sanguinaire.
- 5Simple mécontentement.
- 6Mouvement violent et impétueux d’un animal irrité.
- 7Impétuosité de colère, d’attaque.
- 8Impétuosité d’action, action rapide.
- 9Passion excessive et déraisonnable.
- 10Grande violence des choses.
- 11État le plus violent d’une chose, sa plus grande intensité.
- 12Morceau d’un mouvement vif, dans un ballet, avec un caractère analogue à l’action des passions violentes.
- 13Ancienne étoffe de soie des Indes, ainsi nommée des figures hideuses qui y étaient imprimées.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ffurie,fruie,fuire,furei,furrie,ufrie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for furie
Misspelling Variants of "furie"
Frequency rank: #23,873 in French
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