fui
\fɥi\
The verdict
“fui” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #9,318) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #9,318
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé masculin singulier de fuir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fui · fui · French
fui · rank #9,318 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,318
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fondations
Nearest frequency peer: fondations (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « fui »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- eurent
eurent
90,685 corpus weight
- fondations
fondations
90,684 corpus weight
- fui
fui
90,683 corpus weight
- féministes
féministes
90,682 corpus weight
- gentiment
gentiment
90,681 corpus weight
- gouvernemen…
gouvernementale
90,680 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « fui » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | fui |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fɥi\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #9,318 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « fui »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for fui is neighbouring look-alikes ("fun", "fût", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced \fɥi\. Frequency #9,318 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Gloss: "Participe passé masculin singulier de fuir.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for fui, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "fun", "fût", "fus", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 fui, spelled F-U-I.
Definition
- 1Participe passé masculin singulier de fuir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fui appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il a fui à toute vitesse.
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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