furieux

\fy.ʁjø\

/\fy.ʁjø\/ adj

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The verdict

“furieux” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,010. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#9,010
frequency rank, French
3,276
“F” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
6
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est en fureur ; qui est en furie.

Corpus desk

Index FR-furieux · furieux · French

furieux · rank #9,010 · 9 variants · 6 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #9,010
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,276
  • PHOTO-FINISH fréquentation

Nearest frequency peer: fréquentation (-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 « furieux »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « furieux » 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).

furieux vs furious
71% similar
furieux vs furie
71% similar
furieux vs fureur
71% similar

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

Key facts for furieux
PropertyValue
Headwordfurieux
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\fy.ʁjø\
Letters7
Frequency rank#9,010
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « furieux »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).furieuxse place ici:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « fréquentation » (#9,009), « gouttes » (#9,011), « fragments » (#9,008). Parmi 3,276 lemmes en « F », « furieux » est au #9,010. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around furieux (IPA \fy.ʁjø\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #9,010 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 7 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for furieux, with forms such as "ffurieux", "fruieux", and "fuireux". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "furious", "furie", "fureur", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is furieux, spelled F-U-R-I-E-U-X.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui est en fureur ; qui est en furie.
  2. 2
    Qui dénote ou qui exprime la fureur.
  3. 3
    Qui, dans sa folie, se porte ou peut se porter à des actes de violence.
  4. 4
    Qui est impétueux, véhément, violent.
  5. 5
    Qui est prodigieux, excessif, extraordinaire dans son genre.
  6. 6
    Se dit du taureau élevé sur ses pieds. À rapprocher d’acculé, cabré, effaré, effarouché, effrayé et forcené.
  7. 7
    Qualifie une sorte d'allure de manège.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Il vit, non loin du grand chemin, une femme éplorée qui appelait le Ciel et la Terre à son secours, et un homme furieux qui la suivait. […]. Cet homme l’accablait de coups et de reproches.
  2. L'homme emporté et furieux ne connaît personne, il se connaît à peine lui-même. Il n'est capable de rien entendre; la colère lui fait prononcer une multitude de paroles vagues, dont il perd jusqu'au souvenir; […].

This word in other languages

furious(English)furioso(Español)rasend(Deutsch)furioso(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ffurieux
  • fruieux
  • fuireux
  • fureiux
  • furieuxx
  • furiexu
  • furiuex
  • furrieux
  • ufrieux

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of furieux - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

ffurieux1fruieux2fuireux2fureiux2furieuxx1furiexu2furiuex2furrieux1
Edit distance from "furieux"

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 "furieux"?
"furieux" is spelled F-U-R-I-E-U-X. The IPA pronunciation is \fy.ʁjø\.
What does "furieux" mean?
As an adjective, "furieux" means: Qui est en fureur ; qui est en furie.
What words are commonly confused with "furieux"?
"furieux" is commonly confused with "furious", "furie", "fureur". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "furieux"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "furieux" is \fy.ʁjø\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "furieux" come from?
"furieux" 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 "furieux", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

gouttes#9,011graisse#9,012exclure#9,004emprise#8,997

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

Kennedy9 variantsmenant9 variantsmodéré9 variantsoscars9 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list