fuseau

/\fy.zo\/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#27,818

in French word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

6

similar word pairs

fuseau is aFrenchnoun. It means: Petite tige de bois renflée en son milieu, pointu à un bout et arrondi à l’autre et dont on se sert pour filer à la quenouille et tordre le fil, afin de le rouler à mesure qu’il se forme. Pronounced \fy.zo\. Often confused with fusée and fusées.

Key facts for fuseau
PropertyValue
Headwordfuseau
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\fy.zo\
Letters6
Frequency rank#27,818
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of fuseau in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for fuseau is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fy.zo\. Corpus data places it at rank #27,818 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 12 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for fuseau, with forms such as "ffuseau", "fsueau", and "fuesau". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "fusée", "fusées", "fusent", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is fuseau, spelled F-U-S-E-A-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Petite tige de bois renflée en son milieu, pointu à un bout et arrondi à l’autre et dont on se sert pour filer à la quenouille et tordre le fil, afin de le rouler à mesure qu’il se forme.
  2. 2
    Petite broche où est enroulé le fil pour faire la dentelle.
  3. 3
    Chose fusiforme.
  4. 4
    Chose fusiforme.
  5. 5
    Chose fusiforme.
  6. 6
    Chose fusiforme.
  7. 7
    Chose fusiforme.
  8. 8
    Chose fusiforme.
  9. 9
    Zone comprise sur une surface entre deux arcs de courbure opposée ayant même origine et même extrémité.
  10. 10
    Zone délimitée par deux méridiens, sur l’ellipsoïde ou le plan de projection.
  11. 11
    Découpage du terrain autour des pénétrantes.
  12. 12
    Partie distale de l’intestin de porc, rectum, servant à l’embossage des saucissons, il est aussi nommé rosette.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ffuseau,fsueau,fuesau,fusaeu,fuseua,fusseau,ufseau

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for fuseau

Misspelling Variants of "fuseau"

ffuseau7fsueau6fuesau6fusaeu6fuseua6fusseau7ufseau6
Misspelling Variants of "fuseau"

Frequency rank: #27,818 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "fuseau"?
"fuseau" is spelled F-U-S-E-A-U. The IPA pronunciation is \fy.zo\.
What does "fuseau" mean?
As a noun, "fuseau" means: Petite tige de bois renflée en son milieu, pointu à un bout et arrondi à l’autre et dont on se sert pour filer à la quenouille et tordre le fil, afin de le rouler à mesure qu’il se forme.
What words are commonly confused with "fuseau"?
"fuseau" is commonly confused with "fusée", "fusées", "fusent". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "fuseau"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "fuseau" is \fy.zo\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "fuseau" come from?
"fuseau" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.