Fuge
German, noun
Fuge is spelled F-U-G-E (4 letters) and appears 2.5 times per million words in written German, the 20,880th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fuge is a German feminine noun meaning “joint (of bricks/tiles)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). On this page, füge is a different word: “first-person singular present”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “trennende, längliche, unter Umständen auch aufgefüllte Lücke, Spalt zwischen zwei Teilen, zum Beispiel…”.
What does Fuge mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininejoint (of bricks/tiles)
noun
- 1
femininefugue
Die Kunst der Fuge
verb
- 1
first-person singular present
- 2
first/third-person singular subjunctive I
- 3
singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. trennende, längliche, unter Umständen auch aufgefüllte Lücke, Spalt zwischen zwei Teilen, zum Beispiel Backsteinen oder Kacheln 2. kurz für Kompositionsfuge, Zusammensetzungsfuge 3. mehrstimmiges Musikstück, bei dem ein oder mehrere Themen hintereinander in allen Stimmen vorkommen
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of Fuge
- Fugen plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Fuge
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Fuge in German?
Fuge appears 2.5 times per million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).