fugacious
/fjuːˈɡeɪ.ʃəs/
"fugacious" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“fugacious” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fleeting, fading quickly, transient.
Corpus desk
Index EN-fugacious · fugacious · English
fugacious · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "F" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fugacious |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /fjuːˈɡeɪ.ʃəs/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “fugacious” in English
Rare enough to double-check
fugacious is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed /fjuːˈɡeɪ.ʃəs/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Fleeting, fading quickly, transient.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for fugacious in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Latin fugācius, comparative of fugāciter (“evasively, fleetingly”), from fugāx (“transitory, fleeting”), from fugiō (“I flee”). The correct English form is fugacious, spelled F-U-G-A-C-I-O-U-S.
Definition
- 1Fleeting, fading quickly, transient.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fugacious appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Restless, shifting, fugacious as time itself is a certain vast bulk of the population of the red brick district of the lower West Side. Homeless, they have a hundred homes.
Watering of the eye, conjunctival congestion, distinct catarrhal conjunctivitis, and deep-seated scleral congestions, sometimes fugacious, and often accompanied by intense headache […]
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin fugācius, comparative of fugāciter (“evasively, fleetingly”), from fugāx (“transitory, fleeting”), from fugiō (“I flee”).
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.