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furu

noun

furu is a noun meaning “A person who fraudulently poses as a guru” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-U-R-U, and it appears about once in every 51 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of furu is furus.

What does furu mean?

noun

  1. 1

    informalrareA person who fraudulently poses as a guru.

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

Forms of furu

  • furus plural

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

How common is furu?

Furu appears about once in every 51 million words in written English, the 222,788th 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 furu come from?

Blend of fake + guru.

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