fuchsia
\fy.ʃja\
The verdict
“fuchsia” is uncommon French (frequency #53,363 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,363
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Couleur des fleurs de nombreux fuchsia, entre rose bonbon et pourpre. #fd3f92
Corpus desk
Index FR-fuchsia · fuchsia · French
fuchsia · rank #53,363 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,363
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH frôlent
Nearest frequency peer: frôlent (-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 « fuchsia »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fruitière
fruitière
46,640 corpus weight
- frôlent
frôlent
46,639 corpus weight
- fuchsia
fuchsia
46,638 corpus weight
- fusionnant
fusionnant
46,637 corpus weight
- fédéré
fédéré
46,636 corpus weight
- gabelle
gabelle
46,635 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fuchsia » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fuchsia |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fy.ʃja\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #53,363 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fuchsia » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fuchsia is uncommon French at frequency #53,363 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \fy.ʃja\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Couleur des fleurs de nombreux fuchsia, entre rose bonbon et pourpre. #fd3f92".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for fuchsia, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is fuchsia, spelled F-U-C-H-S-I-A.
Definition
- 1Couleur des fleurs de nombreux fuchsia, entre rose bonbon et pourpre. #fd3f92
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fuchsia appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…], la crinière éparse à la Tina Turner, vêtue de cuir fuchsia dissimulant parfaitement une grossesse avancée, Calixthe m'était apparue telle une future locomotive drainant dans son sillage une flopée de blacks et blackisants notoires.
Quant à sa douce amie, la voilà métamorphosée en furie vengeresse prête à tuer pour un tanga rose fuchsia.
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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