fument
\fym\
The verdict
“fument” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,294. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,294
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de fumer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fument · fument · French
fument · rank #19,294 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,294
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fucking
Nearest frequency peer: fucking (-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 « fument »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- foutage
foutage
80,710 corpus weight
- fréquentent
fréquentent
80,709 corpus weight
- fucking
fucking
80,708 corpus weight
- fument
fument
80,707 corpus weight
- furieuse
furieuse
80,706 corpus weight
- fœtus
fœtus
80,705 corpus weight
What this shows « fument » 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 | fument |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fym\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #19,294 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « fument »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around fument (IPA \fym\), averb. Corpus frequency is #19,294 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for fument, with forms such as "ffument", "fmuent", and "fuemnt". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "fumer", "fumes", "furet", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 fument, spelled F-U-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de fumer.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de fumer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fument appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pendant le reste de l’année, les Beaucairiens fument, jouent aux cartes, chassent et dorment.
Alors, que voulez-vous qu’ils fassent ? Qu’ils beuvaillent, fricotent, baffrent, fument la pipe, chantent, dansent, cavalcadent, boustifaillent, tortillent, goinfrent ou pignochent, boulottent, buvotent, lichent, picolent, chopinent, trinquent et qu’ils rotent et qu’ils cuvent ?
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffument
- fmuent
- fuemnt
- fumennt
- fumentt
- fumetn
- fumment
- fumnet
- ufment
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fument - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "fument", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).