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fusil

/ˈfjuːzɪl/noun

fusil is a noun meaning “A bearing of a rhomboidal figure, originally representing a spindle in shape, longer than a heraldic lozenge” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-U-S-I-L, and it appears about once in every 28 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fusil is fusils.

What does fusil mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A bearing of a rhomboidal figure, originally representing a spindle in shape, longer than a heraldic lozenge.

  2. 2

    A light flintlock musket or firelock.

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

How do you pronounce fusil?

  • /ˈfjuːzɪl/

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

Forms of fusil

  • fusils plural

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

How common is fusil?

Fusil appears about once in every 28 million words in written English, the 159,707th 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).

Fusil in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchfusée (heraldic feature), fusil (weapon)
GermanSpindel, Wecke (heraldic feature), Gewehr (weapon)
Spanishfusado (heraldic feature), fusil (weapon)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does fusil come from?

From Middle English fusill, from Old French fusel, fuisel, from a late Latin diminutive of Latin fūsus (“spindle”).

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