fagot
/ˈfæɡ.ət/
"fagot" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“fagot” is uncommon English (frequency #97,015 among 2,507 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,015
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative spelling of faggot (“bundle of sticks for fuel”).
Corpus desk
Index EN-fagot · fagot · English
fagot · rank #97,015 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,015
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH faff
Nearest frequency peer: faff (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “fagot”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- extrude
extrude
2,990 corpus weight
- Fabs
Fabs
2,988 corpus weight
- faff
faff
2,987 corpus weight
- fagot
fagot
2,986 corpus weight
- fanfest
fanfest
2,983 corpus weight
- farmworker
farmworker
2,982 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “fagot” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fagot |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈfæɡ.ət/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #97,015 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “fagot” in English
Rare enough to double-check
fagot is uncommon English at frequency #97,015 among 2,507 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈfæɡ.ət/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
fagot doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Most likely from Italian fagotto, from Latin fascis. The correct English form is fagot, spelled F-A-G-O-T.
Definition
- 1Alternative spelling of faggot (“bundle of sticks for fuel”).
- 2Alternative spelling of faggot (“bundle of iron or steel”).
- 3A fagotto, or bassoon.
- 4A person hired to take the place of another at the muster of a company .
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fagot appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
What fool hath added water to the sea, / Or brought a fagot to bright-burning Troy?
"Give the red man Goss!" she told him; / "Drive him westward from the forest, […] / Chase him west, with fire and fagot, / Give him Goss! for he's no business, / Business none, to be an Injun."
Etymology
Most likely from Italian fagotto, from Latin fascis.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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