fugitives
\fy.ʒi.tiv\
The verdict
“fugitives” is uncommon French (frequency #70,663 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,663
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de fugitif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fugitives · fugitives · French
fugitives · rank #70,663 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,663
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fuie
Nearest frequency peer: fuie (+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 « fugitives »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Friedland
Friedland
29,341 corpus weight
- frottait
frottait
29,340 corpus weight
- fugitives
fugitives
29,338 corpus weight
- fuie
fuie
29,337 corpus weight
- fédérée
fédérée
29,336 corpus weight
- féodalisme
féodalisme
29,335 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fugitives » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fugitives |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fy.ʒi.tiv\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #70,663 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fugitives » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fugitives is uncommon French at frequency #70,663 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \fy.ʒi.tiv\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de fugitif.".
No misspelling variants are generated for fugitives in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is fugitives, spelled F-U-G-I-T-I-V-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de fugitif.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fugitives appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’étaient des regards doux et délicats comme les lotos bleus qui nagent sur les eaux, des expressions fugitives comme les faibles parfums de l’églantine, des mélancolies tendres comme le velours des mousses ; fleurs de deux belles âmes qui naissaient d’une terre riche, féconde, immuable.
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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