fuego
\ˈfweɡo\
The verdict
“fuego” is uncommon French (frequency #57,284 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,284
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Feu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fuego · fuego · French
fuego · rank #57,284 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,284
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH frottez
Nearest frequency peer: frottez (-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 « fuego »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- frappaient
frappaient
42,720 corpus weight
- frottez
frottez
42,718 corpus weight
- fuego
fuego
42,717 corpus weight
- Fulgence
Fulgence
42,716 corpus weight
- furies
furies
42,715 corpus weight
- fécales
fécales
42,714 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fuego » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fuego |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈfweɡo\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #57,284 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fuego » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fuego is uncommon French at frequency #57,284 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈfweɡo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for fuego, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. 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.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is fuego, spelled F-U-E-G-O.
Definition
- 1Feu.
- 2Incendie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fuego appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un mediodía ardiente hicieron una asombrosa demostración con la lupa gigantesca: pusieron un montón de hierba seca en mitad de la calle y le prendieron fuego mediante la concentración de los rayos solares.
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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