fugitif
\fy.ʒi.tif\
The verdict
“fugitif” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #24,980. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,980
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui s’enfuit ou qui s’est enfui.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fugitif · fugitif · French
fugitif · rank #24,980 · 10 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,980
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH frustrés
Nearest frequency peer: frustrés (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « fugitif »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- flottes
flottes
75,024 corpus weight
- frustrés
frustrés
75,022 corpus weight
- fugitif
fugitif
75,021 corpus weight
- fécondation
fécondation
75,020 corpus weight
- gaine
gaine
75,019 corpus weight
- Georgia
Georgia
75,018 corpus weight
What this shows « fugitif » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fugitif |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fy.ʒi.tif\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #24,980 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « fugitif »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around fugitif (IPA \fy.ʒi.tif\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #24,980 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for fugitif, with forms such as "ffugitif", "fguitif", and "fuggitif". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "furtif", "fugitifs", "fugitive", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is fugitif, spelled F-U-G-I-T-I-F.
Definition
- 1Qui s’enfuit ou qui s’est enfui.
- 2Ce qui passe ou se dérobe avec quelque rapidité ; fugace.
- 3Fuyant, fugace, qui ne subsiste pas, qui est passager, peu durable.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fugitif appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un esclave fugitif. Errant et fugitif.
Une ombre fugitive. L’onde fugitive.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffugitif
- fguitif
- fuggitif
- fugiitf
- fugitfi
- fugitiff
- fugittif
- fugtiif
- fuigtif
- ufgitif
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fugitif - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).