fagot

/\fa.ɡo\/ noun

The verdict

“fagot” is an uncommon French word, ranked #65,940 in French word frequency and used as a noun.

#65,940
frequency rank, French
5
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: Faisceau de menu bois, de branchages.

Key facts for fagot
PropertyValue
Headwordfagot
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\fa.ɡo\
Letters5
Frequency rank#65,940
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “fagot” sits in French frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). fagot lands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
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Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for fagot is 5 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fa.ɡo\. Corpus data places it at rank #65,940 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for fagot in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is fagot, spelled F-A-G-O-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Faisceau de menu bois, de branchages.
  2. 2
    Assemblage de haricots, ou de tout autre aliment filiforme, par un lien végétal.
  3. 3
    Ouvrage de charpenterie, de menuiserie, ou de tonnellerie, qu’on a démonté, et dont les pièces sont liées en paquet, en faisceau, pour qu’elles occupent moins d’espace et qu’elles puissent être remontées au besoin.
  4. 4
    Utilisé dans différentes expressions et proverbes.
  5. 5
    Forçat, bagnard.
  6. 6
    Grand quantité.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #65,940 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "fagot"?
"fagot" is spelled F-A-G-O-T. The IPA pronunciation is \fa.ɡo\.
What does "fagot" mean?
As a noun, "fagot" means: Faisceau de menu bois, de branchages.
How do you pronounce "fagot"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "fagot" is \fa.ɡo\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "fagot" come from?
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Using “fagot”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is F-A-G-O-T — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \fa.ɡo\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.