furoncles
\fy.ʁɔ̃kl\
The verdict
“furoncles” is uncommon French (frequency #85,739 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,739
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de furoncle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-furoncles · furoncles · French
furoncles · rank #85,739 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,739
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH frottée
Nearest frequency peer: frottée (-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 « furoncles »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- frileuses
frileuses
14,265 corpus weight
- frisant
frisant
14,264 corpus weight
- frottée
frottée
14,263 corpus weight
- furoncles
furoncles
14,262 corpus weight
- gachet
gachet
14,261 corpus weight
- galiléen
galiléen
14,259 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « furoncles » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | furoncles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fy.ʁɔ̃kl\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #85,739 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « furoncles » en français
Rare enough to double-check
furoncles is uncommon French at frequency #85,739 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fy.ʁɔ̃kl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de furoncle.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for furoncles, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is furoncles, spelled F-U-R-O-N-C-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de furoncle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how furoncles appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Si vous faites régulièrement des furoncles, et après avis du médecin, évitez le sucre et les aliments sucrés.
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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