fungo
/ˈfʌŋɡoʊ/noun, verb
fungo is a noun meaning “A fielding practice drill where a person hits fly balls intended to be caught” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-U-N-G-O, and it appears about once in every 49 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fungo is fungos or fungoes.
What does fungo mean?
noun
- 1
A fielding practice drill where a person hits fly balls intended to be caught.
The fielding coach played fungo with the outfielders to warm them up.
- 2
informalA fungo bat.
He is so strong he could hit it out of the park with a fungo.
verb
- 1
To take part in a fielding practice drill where a person hits fly balls intended to be caught.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce fungo?
- US /ˈfʌŋɡoʊ/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-fungo.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of fungo
- fungos plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- fungoes plural
- fungoing participle, present
- fungoed participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fungo?
Fungo appears about once in every 49 million words in written English, the 217,360th 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 fungo come from?
Uncertain; perhaps from Scots fung (“to fling, throw”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).