fuck
/ˈfʌk/verb, noun, interjection, adverb, particle
fuck is spelled F-U-C-K. The wrong spelling people search most is fcuk: about 160 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 278 of all searches for the word. Fuck is an offensive, vulgar verb meaning “To have sexual intercourse; to copulate”.
How many letters and syllables are in fuck?
| Letters | 4: F-U-C-K |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 |
| In writing | 245 times per million words; the 402nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, fcuk, about 160 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 fuck?
Fuck is spelled F-U-C-K. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 233 of the searches for fuck in either form.
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 fuck?
Fuck appears 245 times per million words in written English, the 402nd 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 fuck?
- /ˈfʌk/
- [ˈfʌk]
- UK /ˈfʌʔ(k)/
Fuck has one syllable.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-fuck.ogg, En-uk-fuck.ogg, En-uk-fuck2.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with fuck
Also written: fak.
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
Forms of fuck
- fucks present, singular, he/she/it
- fucking participle, present
- fucked participle, past, singular, he/she/it, plural
- f##k
- f#$k
- f#%k
- f#*k
- f#@k
- f***
- f**k
- f*ck
- f--k
- f@%k
- fck
- fk
- fsck
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does fuck mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
verb
- 1
offensivevulgarTo have sexual intercourse; to copulate.
It's just common courtesy to help clean up after fucking.
- 2
offensivevulgarTo have sexual intercourse with.
I really enjoyed fucking my girlfriend last night.
- 3
offensivevulgarTo have penetrative sex (as opposed to oral sex, etc.).
We've done oral, but never fucked.
- 4
offensivevulgarTo insert one's penis, a dildo, etc., into a person or a specified orifice or cleft sexually; to penetrate.
We decided to switch things around and have him fuck me tonight.
- 5
offensivevulgarTo masturbate.
- 6
vulgarTo put in an extremely difficult or impossible situation.
I'm afraid they're gonna fuck you on this one.
- 7
vulgarTo defraud, deface, or otherwise treat badly.
I got fucked at the used car lot.
- 8
derogatoryvulgarUsed to express great displeasure with, or contemptuous dismissal of, someone or something.
Fuck those jerks, and fuck their stupid rules!
noun
- 1
colloquialvulgarAn act of sexual intercourse.
- 2
colloquialvulgarA sexual partner, especially a casual one.
- 3
colloquialvulgarA highly contemptible person.
- 4
colloquialvulgarThe smallest amount of concern or consideration.
I don't give a fuck.
- 5
colloquialvulgarSemen.
Of course the cunt full of fuck only excited him the more, and he very soon racked off to her great satisfaction, and was dismissed, leaving the rooms vacant for the two at eleven. As there was not five minutes to spare she ran to No. 3, […
interjection
- 1
colloquialvulgarA semi-voluntary vocalization in place of a gasp.
- 2
colloquialvulgarExpressing dismay or discontent.
Oh, fuck! We left the back door unlocked.
- 3
colloquialvulgarExpressing surprise or enjoyment.
Fuck! That movie was good!
adverb
- 1
colloquialvulgarUsed as an intensifier for the words "yes" and "no".
Do you censor your swearing? – Fuck no.
- 2
IrelandUKcolloquialvulgarUsed after an inverted subject pronoun and auxiliary verb or copula to emphatically negate the verb.
Do I want to? Do I fuck!
particle
- 1
colloquialslangvulgarUsed as a shortened form of various common interrogative phrases.
People complainin' "Monday again"... course it's Monday; fuck you thought came after Sunday? Sunday Jr.?
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate fuck?
Wiktionary records 2 abbreviations of fuck: F, f.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Fuck in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense to have sexual intercourse–obscene or vulgar:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | baiser, fourrer, niquer, enconner, foutre, enculer |
| German | ficken, knallen, bumsen, nageln, pimpern, poppen |
| Portuguese | foder, montar, pinar, comer, transar, trepar |
| Spanish | follar, follarse, joder, coger, chingar, jalar |
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 fuck come from?
From Middle English *fukken, probably of Germanic origin: either from Old English *fuccian or Old Norse *fukka, both from Proto-Germanic *fukkōną, from Proto-Indo-European *pewǵ- (“to strike, punch, stab”). Compare windfucker and its debated etymology.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).