fortuit

/\fɔʁ.tɥi\/ adj

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#44,465

in French word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

10

similar word pairs

fortuit is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui arrive ou qu’on croit arriver par hasard, d’une manière imprévue. Pronounced \fɔʁ.tɥi\. Often confused with fruit and fortune.

Key facts for fortuit
PropertyValue
Headwordfortuit
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\fɔʁ.tɥi\
Letters7
Frequency rank#44,465
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs10
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for fortuit is 7 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fɔʁ.tɥi\. Corpus data places it at rank #44,465 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Qui arrive ou qu’on croit arriver par hasard, d’une manière imprévue.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for fortuit, with forms such as "ffortuit", "forrtuit", and "fortiut". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "fruit", "fortune", "foutait", 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 fortuit, spelled F-O-R-T-U-I-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui arrive ou qu’on croit arriver par hasard, d’une manière imprévue.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ffortuit,forrtuit,fortiut,forttuit,fortuitt,fortuti,forutit,fotruit,frotuit,ofrtuit

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for fortuit

Misspelling Variants of "fortuit"

ffortuit8forrtuit8fortiut7forttuit8fortuitt8fortuti7forutit7fotruit7
Misspelling Variants of "fortuit"

Frequency rank: #44,465 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "fortuit"?
"fortuit" is spelled F-O-R-T-U-I-T. The IPA pronunciation is \fɔʁ.tɥi\.
What does "fortuit" mean?
As an adj, "fortuit" means: Qui arrive ou qu’on croit arriver par hasard, d’une manière imprévue.
What words are commonly confused with "fortuit"?
"fortuit" is commonly confused with "fruit", "fortune", "foutait". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "fortuit"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "fortuit" is \fɔʁ.tɥi\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "fortuit" come from?
"fortuit" 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. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.