füttern
\ˈfʏtɐn\
The verdict
“füttern” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nourrir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-futtern · füttern · French
füttern · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "F" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | füttern |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈfʏtɐn\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « füttern » en français
Rare enough to double-check
füttern is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \ˈfʏtɐn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for füttern, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. 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.
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. The correct French form is füttern, spelled F-Ü-T-T-E-R-N.
Definition
- 1Nourrir.
- 2Faire manger, donner de la nourriture à.
- 3En donner trop à.
- 4Doubler, fourrer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how füttern appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Bei den Ameisen übernehmen die Arbeiterinnen Aufgaben im Inneren des Baus, zum Beispiel füttern und pflegen sie die Brut und die Königin.
Detlef ist ein kleiner abgemagerter Kater zugelaufen. Er ist sichtbar aufgelebt, nachdem Detlef ihn eine Woche lang gefüttert hat.
Synonyms
Antonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.