futaie
\fy.tɛ\
The verdict
“futaie” is uncommon French (frequency #66,751 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,751
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forêt où l’on n’a conservé que les arbres destinés à atteindre leur pleine croissance.
Corpus desk
Index FR-futaie · futaie · French
futaie · rank #66,751 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,751
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH furieuses
Nearest frequency peer: furieuses (-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 « futaie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fribourgeois
fribourgeois
33,253 corpus weight
- fully
fully
33,252 corpus weight
- furieuses
furieuses
33,251 corpus weight
- futaie
futaie
33,250 corpus weight
- Galaad
Galaad
33,248 corpus weight
- garçonne
garçonne
33,247 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « futaie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | futaie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fy.tɛ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #66,751 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « futaie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
futaie is uncommon French at frequency #66,751 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fy.tɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for futaie in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is futaie, spelled F-U-T-A-I-E.
Definition
- 1Forêt où l’on n’a conservé que les arbres destinés à atteindre leur pleine croissance.
- 2Traitement sylvicole visant à obtenir une futaie.
- 3Ensemble d’objets évoquant l’aspect des troncs d’une forêt.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how futaie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La lande descendait en pente douce vers le nord jusqu’à une noble futaie de chênes plantée en quinconce et qui couvrait un large plateau situé à mi-côte.
Avant d’exploiter une coupe, on a dû marquer les arbres que l’on veut réserver, tant dans le taillis que dans la futaie ; cette marque se fait ordinairement au pied de l’arbre à l’aide d’un marteau.
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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