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fugal

/ˈfjuːɡəl/adjective

fugal is an adjective meaning “relating to a fugue” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-U-G-A-L, and it appears about once in every 22 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does fugal mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    relating to a fugue

  2. 2

    Relating to flight (fleeing)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce fugal?

  • /ˈfjuːɡəl/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-fugal.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

How common is fugal?

Fugal appears about once in every 22 million words in written English, the 141,699th 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 fugal come from?

From fugue + -al.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).