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faggot

fag·got/ˈfæɡət/noun, verb

faggot is spelled F-A-G-G-O-T, 2 syllables: fag·got. The wrong spelling people search most is faggit: about 50 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 50 of all searches for the word. Faggot is a noun meaning “A bundle of sticks or brushwood intended to be used for fuel tied together for carrying. (Some sources…”. The plural of faggot is faggots.

How many letters and syllables are in faggot?

Letters6: F-A-G-G-O-T
Syllables2: fag·got
In writing3.0 times per million words; the 15,368th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched1; the most searched, faggit, about 50 Bing searches a month (all of them)

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).

How do you spell faggot?

Faggot is spelled F-A-G-G-O-T. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 50 of the searches for faggot in either form.

faggotthe right spelling2,440 searches a month
faggiti in place of o50 searches a month

Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.

How common is faggot?

Faggot appears 3.0 times per million words in written English, the 15,368th 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).

How do you pronounce faggot?

  • /ˈfæɡət/
  • [ˈfæɡət]
  • /ˈfeɪ̯ɡət/

Faggot has 2 syllables, split fag·got in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-fagot.wav, En-US-faggot.wav, EN-AU_ck1_faggot.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of faggot

  • faggots plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • fagot
  • phaggot
  • faggoting participle, present
  • faggoted participle, past

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

What does faggot mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    IrelandUKA bundle of sticks or brushwood intended to be used for fuel tied together for carrying. (Some sources specify that a faggot is tied with two bands or withes, whereas a bavin is tied with just one.)

  2. 2

    obsoleteBurdensome baggage.

  3. 3

    A bundle of pieces of iron or steel cut off into suitable lengths for welding.

  4. 4

    datedrareA burning or smouldering piece of firewood.

  5. 5

    IrelandUKA meatball made with offcuts and offal, especially pork.

  6. 6

    offensivevulgarA gay man, especially an effeminate one; (by extension) a non-heterosexual man.

    Drag, Example: “All the fagots (sissies) will be dressed in drag at the ball tonight.

  7. 7

    offensivevulgarA homosexual person or non-heterosexual person of any gender.

  8. 8

    offensivevulgarA queer person in general.

verb

  1. 1

    Alternative form of fagot.

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

Faggot in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchfagot (piece of firewood)
GermanBrennholz, Scheit (piece of firewood), Reisigbündel (bundle of sticks), Arschloch, Mistkerl, Drecksack (annoying person)
Spanishleña, tercio (piece of firewood), haz (bundle of sticks), huevón (annoying person), albóndiga de puerco, albóndiga de cerdo (pork meatball)
Portuguesefeixe (bundle of sticks)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does faggot come from?

From Middle English fagot, from Old French fagot (“bundle of sticks”), of uncertain origin. Unlikely from Old Occitan fagot or Italian fagotto, as these appear later than the Old French term. Compare also Italian fangotto and Spanish fajo (“bundle, wad”). Perhaps from a diminutive of Vulgar Latin *facus, from Ancient Greek φάκελος (phákelos, “bundle of wood”).

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

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