furieux
French, adjective/fy.ʁjø/
furieux is spelled F-U-R-I-E-U-X (7 letters) and appears 6.8 times per million words in written French, the 8,979th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Furieux is a French adjective meaning “furious” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qui est en fureur ; qui est en furie”.
What does furieux mean in English?
adjective
- 1
furious
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui est en fureur ; qui est en furie. 2. Qui dénote ou qui exprime la fureur. 3. Qui, dans sa folie, se porte ou peut se porter à des actes de violence. 4. Qui est impétueux, véhément, violent.
noun: 1. Personne impétueuse, véhémente, violente.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of furieux
- furieuse feminine
- furieuses feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce furieux?
- /fy.ʁjø/
- \fy.ʁjø\
- [fy.ʁjø]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to furieux
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is furieux in French?
furieux appears 6.8 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).