fagot
\fa.ɡo\
The verdict
“fagot” is uncommon French (frequency #65,940 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,940
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faisceau de menu bois, de branchages.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fagot · fagot · French
fagot · rank #65,940 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,940
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH factieux
Nearest frequency peer: factieux (-1 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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « fagot »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- exécutable
exécutable
34,064 corpus weight
- Fabiola
Fabiola
34,063 corpus weight
- factieux
factieux
34,062 corpus weight
- fagot
fagot
34,061 corpus weight
- fallacieuse
fallacieuse
34,060 corpus weight
- fanée
fanée
34,059 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fagot » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fagot |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fa.ɡo\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #65,940 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fagot » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fagot is uncommon French at frequency #65,940 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fa.ɡo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 6 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for fagot in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is fagot, spelled F-A-G-O-T.
Definition
- 1Faisceau de menu bois, de branchages.
- 2Assemblage de haricots, ou de tout autre aliment filiforme, par un lien végétal.
- 3Ouvrage 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.
- 4Utilisé dans différentes expressions et proverbes.
- 5Forçat, bagnard.
- 6Grand quantité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fagot appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le frôlement des plumes sur le papier rappelait celui des fagots traînés à charretées pleines, par un chemin forestier, sur une couche de feuilles mortes.
À l’autre extrémité de la lice était dressé un tas de fagots rangés autour d’un poteau fixé fortement en terre. La victime devait être amenée sur ce fatal bûcher pour être enchaînée au poteau.
This word in other languages
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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