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fung

noun

fung is a noun meaning “Alternative form of fum (“fabulous Chinese bird”)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-U-N-G and has one syllable, and it appears about once in every 1 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fung is fungs.

What does fung mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Alternative form of fum (“fabulous Chinese bird”).

  2. 2

    rareFungus.

noun

as Fung
  1. 1

    Synonym of Fungor (“Sudanese ethnic group”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce fung?

    Fung has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

    Forms of fung

    • fungs plural

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

    How common is fung?

    Fung appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 30,789th most frequent word form in the list.

    Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).