Furnes
\fyʁn\
The verdict
“Furnes” is uncommon French (frequency #71,537 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,537
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune et ville de la province de Flandre-Occidentale de la région flamande de Belgique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-furnes · Furnes · French
Furnes · rank #71,537 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,537
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fulmine
Nearest frequency peer: fulmine (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « Furnes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- frimas
frimas
28,467 corpus weight
- fugaces
fugaces
28,466 corpus weight
- fulmine
fulmine
28,465 corpus weight
- Furnes
Furnes
28,464 corpus weight
- futurisme
futurisme
28,463 corpus weight
- fêlure
fêlure
28,462 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Furnes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Furnes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \fyʁn\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #71,537 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Furnes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Furnes is uncommon French at frequency #71,537 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \fyʁn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Commune et ville de la province de Flandre-Occidentale de la région flamande de Belgique.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Furnes in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Furnes, spelled F-U-R-N-E-S.
Definition
- 1Commune et ville de la province de Flandre-Occidentale de la région flamande de Belgique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Furnes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sur la grand-place de Furnes, des beaux exemples de monuments de style renaissance flamande entourent l’hôtel de ville.
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.
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