fuir
\fɥiʁ\
The verdict
“fuir” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,672. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,672
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - S’éloigner à toute vitesse, par peur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fuir · fuir · French
fuir · rank #4,672 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,672
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fontaine
Nearest frequency peer: fontaine (-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 « fuir »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- failli
failli
95,332 corpus weight
- fontaine
fontaine
95,330 corpus weight
- fuir
fuir
95,329 corpus weight
- fumée
fumée
95,328 corpus weight
- féminine
féminine
95,327 corpus weight
- genoux
genoux
95,326 corpus weight
What this shows « fuir » 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 | 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) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « fuir »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around fuir (IPA \fɥiʁ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #4,672 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 8 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for fuir, with forms such as "ffuir", "fiur", and "fuirr". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. 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.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is fuir, spelled F-U-I-R.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fuir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et il fuit, il fuit toujours, et il bute contre les pierres, contre les mottes de terre, contre les touffes d’herbe, poursuivi sans cesse par les cris de mort.
Ces conjectures et ces raisonnements se pressaient dans la cervelle de Scaër, pendant que les assassins fuyaient en emportant ce qu'on appelle en style judiciaire le corps du délit.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffuir
- fiur
- fuirr
- furi
- ufir
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fuir - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "fuir", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).