furoncle
\fy.ʁɔ̃kl\
The verdict
“furoncle” is uncommon French (frequency #79,338 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,338
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Infection bactérienne suppurative du follicule pileux, due en général au staphylocoque doré.
Corpus desk
Index FR-furoncle · furoncle · French
furoncle · rank #79,338 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,338
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fucks
Nearest frequency peer: fucks (-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 « furoncle »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fromm
fromm
20,665 corpus weight
- fucks
fucks
20,664 corpus weight
- furoncle
furoncle
20,663 corpus weight
- gaffeur
gaffeur
20,662 corpus weight
- galactose
galactose
20,661 corpus weight
- Gance
Gance
20,660 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « furoncle » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | furoncle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fy.ʁɔ̃kl\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #79,338 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « furoncle » en français
Rare enough to double-check
furoncle is uncommon French at frequency #79,338 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fy.ʁɔ̃kl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
furoncle has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is furoncle, spelled F-U-R-O-N-C-L-E.
Definition
- 1Infection bactérienne suppurative du follicule pileux, due en général au staphylocoque doré.
- 2Personne douteuse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how furoncle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il lui est venu un furoncle à l’aisselle, au dos.
La réunion de plusieurs furoncles se nomme un anthrax.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).