fuir
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,672
in French word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
fuir is aFrenchverb. It means: S’éloigner à toute vitesse, par peur. Pronounced \fɥiʁ\. It ranks #4,672 in French word frequency. Often confused with fun and fût.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fuir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fɥiʁ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #4,672 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for fuir is 4 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fɥiʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,672 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for fuir, with forms such as "ffuir", "fiur", and "fuirr". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "fun", "fût", "fus", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is fuir, spelled F-U-I-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1S’éloigner à toute vitesse, par peur.
- 2Différer, éluder, empêcher qu’une chose ne se termine, se dérober à une explication.
- 3Courir ou se mouvoir avec rapidité, s’éloigner ou sembler s’éloigner, en parlant des choses qui s’échappent ou semblent s’échapper.
- 4S’échapper à notre pensée, à notre mémoire.
- 5Paraître s’enfoncer et s’éloigner de la vue du spectateur, en parlant des parties d’un tableau.
- 6S’échapper d’un réceptacle, par quelque fêlure, quelque fente, en parlant du liquide qu’il contient.
- 7Laisser échapper, par quelque fêlure, quelque fente, le liquide qu’il contient, en parlant d’un réceptacle.
- 8Éviter quelqu’un ou quelque chose en s’en éloignant, par aversion, etc.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ffuir,fiur,fuirr,furi,ufir
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for fuir
Misspelling Variants of "fuir"
Frequency rank: #4,672 in French
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Nearby French words
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