fugaces
\fy.ɡas\
The verdict
“fugaces” is uncommon French (frequency #71,535 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,535
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de fugace.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fugaces · fugaces · French
fugaces · rank #71,535 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,535
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH frimas
Nearest frequency peer: frimas (-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 « fugaces »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Fresnoy
Fresnoy
28,468 corpus weight
- frimas
frimas
28,467 corpus weight
- fugaces
fugaces
28,466 corpus weight
- fulmine
fulmine
28,465 corpus weight
- Furnes
Furnes
28,464 corpus weight
- futurisme
futurisme
28,463 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fugaces » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fugaces |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fy.ɡas\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #71,535 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fugaces » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fugaces is uncommon French at frequency #71,535 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \fy.ɡas\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de fugace.".
fugaces doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is fugaces, spelled F-U-G-A-C-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de fugace.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fugaces appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il n’y avait pas fouilleur plus délicat que lui pour dégager les vestiges fugaces et les micro-burins des chasseurs magdaléniens.
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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