Which to use
“fournie” and “fournies” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #10,506
- “fournie” frequency rank
- #10,877
- “fournies” frequency rank
- 21383
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | fournie | fournies |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Féminin singulier de fourni. | Féminin pluriel de fourni. |
Same sound, different letters: fournie vs fournies
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. fournie runs 7 letters (CVVCCVV) against fournies's 8 (CVVCCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - fournie and fournies
This is the hard kind. fournie and fournies are pronounced identically (\fuʁ.ni\) and both work as anadjective. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “fournie” sits inside “fournies”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 21383, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
fournie is recorded at frequency rank #10,506, classified as anadj, pronounced \fuʁ.ni\. fournies is at rank #10,877, tagged as anadj, pronounced \fuʁ.ni\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 21383, this pair ranks #363,437 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of fournie vs fournies
Shared letters: efinoru. Private to "fournie": -. Private to "fournies": s.
"fournie" · 7 letters · shape CVVCCVV · "fournies" · 8 letters · shape CVVCCVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "fournie" and "fournies" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "fournie" vs "fournies" - which ranks higher?
What to do next
"fournie" and "fournies" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "fournie" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "fournies" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #363,437 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "fournie" and "fournies" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "fournies vs fournisse". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #363,437 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.