fugace
French, adjective/fy.ɡas/
fugace is spelled F-U-G-A-C-E (6 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 45,502nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fugace is a French adjective meaning “fleeting (brief, passing)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qui échappe, qui a peu de durée”.
What does fugace mean in English?
adjective
- 1
fleeting (brief, passing)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui échappe, qui a peu de durée. 2. Qui laisse échapper.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of fugace
- fugaces plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce fugace?
- /fy.ɡas/
- \fy.ɡas\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to fugace
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is fugace in French?
fugace appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).