fuguer
\fy.ɡe\
The verdict
“fuguer” is uncommon French (frequency #73,182 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,182
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faire une fugue (en particulier pour un enfant ou un adolescent).
Corpus desk
Index FR-fuguer · fuguer · French
fuguer · rank #73,182 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,182
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH frotta
Nearest frequency peer: frotta (-2 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 « fuguer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fredonne
fredonne
26,823 corpus weight
- Fresnay
Fresnay
26,822 corpus weight
- frotta
frotta
26,821 corpus weight
- fuguer
fuguer
26,819 corpus weight
- galopin
galopin
26,817 corpus weight
- gangue
gangue
26,816 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fuguer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fuguer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fy.ɡe\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #73,182 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fuguer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fuguer is uncommon French at frequency #73,182 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \fy.ɡe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Faire une fugue (en particulier pour un enfant ou un adolescent).".
fuguer doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is fuguer, spelled F-U-G-U-E-R.
Definition
- 1Faire une fugue (en particulier pour un enfant ou un adolescent).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fuguer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À l’époque, j’avais un chien qui fuguait souvent.
This word in other languages
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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