fugit
/ˈfjuːdʒɪt/noun
fugit is a noun meaning “the optimal date to exercise an American option (or a Bermudan option)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-U-G-I-T, and it appears about once in every 16 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fugit is fugits.
What does fugit mean?
noun
- 1
the optimal date to exercise an American option (or a Bermudan option)
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce fugit?
- /ˈfjuːdʒɪt/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of fugit
- fugits plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fugit?
Fugit appears about once in every 16 million words in written English, the 119,826th 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 fugit come from?
From Latin fugit (literally “flees”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).