fougue
\fuɡ\
The verdict
“fougue” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #23,218. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #23,218
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ardeur naturelle ; grande impétuosité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fougue · fougue · French
fougue · rank #23,218 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,218
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH foudres
Nearest frequency peer: foudres (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « fougue »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- fol
fol
76,786 corpus weight
- fortunés
fortunés
76,785 corpus weight
- foudres
foudres
76,784 corpus weight
- fougue
fougue
76,783 corpus weight
- frondeurs
frondeurs
76,782 corpus weight
- frérot
frérot
76,781 corpus weight
What this shows « fougue » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fougue |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fuɡ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #23,218 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « fougue »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around fougue (IPA \fuɡ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #23,218 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for fougue, with forms such as "ffougue", "foguue", and "fougeu". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "foule", "foutu", "fugue", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is fougue, spelled F-O-U-G-U-E.
Definition
- 1Ardeur naturelle ; grande impétuosité.
- 2Hardiesse, mouvement, en parlant d’un poète, d’un orateur ou d’un artiste.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fougue appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Hercule a la fougue d’Achille, mais bien plus de bonté. S'il a méfait, il se repent, répare.
C'est alors que Louis VII, roi plein de fougue en même temps que dévot, se fit l'instigateur d'une nouvelle Croisade.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffougue
- foguue
- fougeu
- fouggue
- fouuge
- fuogue
- ofugue
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fougue - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "fougue", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).