fugar
[fuˈɣ̞aɾ]
The verdict
“fugar” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #74,555 among 2,333 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,555
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,333
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hacer que una persona o animal tenga que correr, generalmente para escapar o huir. Poner en fuga.
Corpus desk
Index ES-fugar · fugar · Spanish
fugar · rank #74,555 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,555
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,333
- PHOTO-FINISH fuerce
Nearest frequency peer: fuerce (-2 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “fugar”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- frenazo
frenazo
25,454 corpus weight
- frisos
frisos
25,451 corpus weight
- fuerce
fuerce
25,448 corpus weight
- fugar
fugar
25,446 corpus weight
- gamberros
gamberros
25,444 corpus weight
- gentilicios
gentilicios
25,439 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “fugar” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fugar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [fuˈɣ̞aɾ] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #74,555 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “fugar” en español
Rare enough to double-check
fugar is uncommon Spanish at frequency #74,555 among 2,333 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [fuˈɣ̞aɾ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Hacer que una persona o animal tenga que correr, generalmente para escapar o huir. Poner en fuga.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for fugar, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is fugar, spelled F-U-G-A-R.
Definition
- 1Hacer que una persona o animal tenga que correr, generalmente para escapar o huir. Poner en fuga.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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