fatigue

/\fa.tiɡ\/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#4,332

in French word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

6

similar word pairs

fatigue is aFrenchnoun. It means: Sensation de faiblesse physique. Pronounced \fa.tiɡ\. It ranks #4,332 in French word frequency. Often confused with figue and fatiguée.

Key facts for fatigue
PropertyValue
Headwordfatigue
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\fa.tiɡ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#4,332
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of fatigue in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for fatigue is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fa.tiɡ\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,332 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for fatigue, with forms such as "aftigue", "faitgue", and "fatgiue". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "figue", "fatiguée", "fatigués", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 fatigue, spelled F-A-T-I-G-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Sensation de faiblesse physique.
  2. 2
    Trop grande dépense de force qui cause de la lassitude.
  3. 3
    Perte de résistance, présence d’un point de fragilité.
  4. 4
    Mécanisme de dégradation d'un matériau sous l'effet de petites sollicitations répétées des milliers voire des millions de fois.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: aftigue,faitgue,fatgiue,fatigeu,fatiggue,fatiuge,fattigue,ffatigue,ftaigue

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for fatigue

Misspelling Variants of "fatigue"

aftigue7faitgue7fatgiue7fatigeu7fatiggue8fatiuge7fattigue8ffatigue8
Misspelling Variants of "fatigue"

Frequency rank: #4,332 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "fatigue"?
"fatigue" is spelled F-A-T-I-G-U-E. The IPA pronunciation is \fa.tiɡ\.
What does "fatigue" mean?
As a noun, "fatigue" means: Sensation de faiblesse physique.
What words are commonly confused with "fatigue"?
"fatigue" is commonly confused with "figue", "fatiguée", "fatigués". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "fatigue"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "fatigue" is \fa.tiɡ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "fatigue" come from?
"fatigue" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.