# fuck

> English word · Verb · IPA /fʌk/ · frequency rank #396

## Definitions
1. To have sexual intercourse; to copulate.
2. To have sexual intercourse; to copulate.
3. To have sexual intercourse; to copulate.
4. To have sexual intercourse; to copulate.
5. To have sexual intercourse; to copulate.
6. To put in an extremely difficult or impossible situation.
7. To defraud, deface, or otherwise treat badly.
8. Used to express great displeasure with, or contemptuous dismissal of, someone or something.
9. To break, to destroy.
10. Used in a phrasal verb: fuck with (“to play with, to tinker”).
11. To throw, to lob something. (angrily)
12. To scold.
13. To be very good, to rule, go hard.

## Etymology
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *pewǵ-
Proto-Germanic *fukkōną
Old English *fuccian
Middle English *fukken
English fuck
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.
Possibly attested in a 772 CE charter that mentions a place called Fuccerham, which may mean "hām (“home”) of the fucker" or "hamm (“pasture”) of the fucker"; a John le Fucker in a record from 1278 may just be a variant of Fulcher; compare Fucher, Foker, etc. The earliest unambiguous use of the word in a clearly sexual context, in any stage of English, appears to be in court documents from Cheshire, England, which mention a man called Roger Fuckebythenavele (possibly tongue-in-cheek or directly suggestive of a depraved sexual act) on 8 December 1310. It was first listed in a dictionary in 1598. Scots fuk or fuck is attested slightly earlier, probably reinforcing the Northern Germanic/Scandinavian origin theory. From 1500 onward, the word has been in continual use, superseding jape and sard and largely displacing swive. See windfucker and fuckwind for more information.
* A range of folk-etymological backronyms, such as fornication under consent of the king and for unlawful carnal knowledge, are all demonstrably false.
* Verb sense 7 from related sense feck.

## Easily confused with
- **fun** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fuck-vs-fun)
- **fur** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fuck-vs-fur)
- **fut** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fuck-vs-fut)
- **full** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fuck-vs-full)
- **fund** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fuck-vs-fund)
- **fuel** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fuck-vs-fuel)
- **fury** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fuck-vs-fury)
- **funk** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fuck-vs-funk)
- **fuse** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fuck-vs-fuse)
- **fuss** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fuck-vs-fuss)
- **fuji** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fuck-vs-fuji)
- **fuzz** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fuck-vs-fuzz)
- **furs** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fuck-vs-furs)
- **fung** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fuck-vs-fung)
- **fume** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fuck-vs-fume)
- **fucks** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fuck-vs-fucks)
- **funky** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fuck-vs-funky)
- **fucked** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fuck-vs-fucked)
- **fuckin** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fuck-vs-fuckin)
- **fucker** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fuck-vs-fucker)

## Common misspellings (6)
`fcuk`, `ffuck`, `fucck`, `fuckk`, `fukc`, `ufck`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/fuck