fue
\fwe\
The verdict
“fue” is uncommon French (frequency #75,713 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,713
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de l’indicatif du verbe irrégulier ir (« aller »).
Corpus desk
Index FR-fue · fue · French
fue · rank #75,713 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,713
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH FSI
Nearest frequency peer: FSI (-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 « fue »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fruste
fruste
24,290 corpus weight
- FSI
FSI
24,289 corpus weight
- fue
fue
24,288 corpus weight
- fuyants
fuyants
24,287 corpus weight
- fuzz
fuzz
24,286 corpus weight
- Gabart
Gabart
24,285 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fue » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fue |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fwe\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #75,713 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fue » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fue is uncommon French at frequency #75,713 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \fwe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de l’indicatif du verbe irrégulier ir (« aller »).".
Zero misspellings are on record for fue in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is fue, spelled F-U-E.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de l’indicatif du verbe irrégulier ir (« aller »).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fue appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A los once años Miguel fue al campo, junto al padre y al hermano mayor.
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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