fsck
/fʌsk/noun, verb, interjection
fsck is a noun meaning “A *nix file system check to detect damage to, or corruption of, files or filesystem structures” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-S-C-K, and it appears about once in every 39 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fsck is fscks.
What does fsck mean?
noun
- 1
A *nix file system check to detect damage to, or corruption of, files or filesystem structures.
verb
- 1
To run fsck on; to perform a fsck on.
interjection
- 1
vulgarFuck.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce fsck?
- /fʌsk/
- /f(ə)sk/
- /f͡sk/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-fsck.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of fsck
- fscks plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- fscking participle, present
- fscked participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fsck?
Fsck appears about once in every 39 million words in written English, the 191,932nd 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).
Where does fsck come from?
Abbreviation of file system check in imitation of fuck.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).