fudge
/fʌd͡ʒ/noun, verb, interjection
fudge is spelled F-U-D-G-E: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 2.1 times per million words in written English, the 18,811th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, fudge means “A type of very sweet candy or confection, usually made from sugar, butter, and milk or cream” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of fudge is fudges.
How many letters and syllables are in fudge?
| Letters | 5: F-U-D-G-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 2.1 times per million words; the 18,811th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How common is fudge?
Fudge appears 2.1 times per million words in written English, the 18,811th 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 fudge?
- /fʌd͡ʒ/
- /fʊd͡ʒ/
Fudge has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-fudge.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of fudge
- fudges plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- fudging participle, present
- fudged participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does fudge mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A type of very sweet candy or confection, usually made from sugar, butter, and milk or cream.
Have you tried the vanilla fudge? It's delicious!
- 2
USChocolate fudge.
- 3
Light or frothy nonsense.
- 4
A deliberately misleading or vague answer.
- 5
datedA made-up story.
- 6
archaicslangThe stop press portion of a newspaper.
- 7
A less than perfect decision or solution; an attempt to fix an incorrect solution after the fact.
- 8
slangFecal matter; feces.
Here comes the fudge!
verb
- 1
To try to avoid giving a direct answer.
When I asked them if they had been at the party, they fudged.
- 2
To alter something from its true state, as to hide a flaw or uncertainty, deliberately but not necessarily dishonestly or immorally.
The results of the experiment looked impressive, but it turned out the numbers had been fudged.
- 3
datedTo botch or bungle something.
- 4
To cheat, especially in the game of marbles.
- 5
colloquialUsed in place of fuck.
interjection
- 1
colloquialUsed in place of fuck.
- 2
archaiccolloquialNonsense; tommyrot.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Fudge in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | fondant, caramel, fudge , balivernes , échappatoire , tourner autour du pot |
| German | Fondant, Buttertoffee , Blödsinn , Ausweichen, Herumreden, Schaumschlägerei |
| Spanish | manjar, dulce, ate, ganache, fudge, foch |
| Portuguese | tergiversar , fosca-se! |
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 fudge come from?
Probably a variant of fadge (“to fit”), the confectionery sense having evolved from the meaning of “merging together” or “turning out as expected”.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).