futur

obsolete

futur is a noun meaning “A fiancé” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-U-T-U-R, and it appears about once in every 9 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of futur is futurs.

What does futur mean?

noun

1
archaicA fiancé.

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

How common is futur?

Futur appears about once in every 9 million words in written English, the 89,388th most frequent word form in the list.

futur0.0010.010.11101001,00010,000

rarerper million words of written Englishmore common

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does futur come from?

Unadapted borrowing from French futur. Doublet of future.

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