fungi

/\ˈfʌŋ.ɡaɪ\/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

fungi is aFrenchnoun. It means: Pluriel de fungus. Pronounced \ˈfʌŋ.ɡaɪ\.

Key facts for fungi
PropertyValue
Headwordfungi
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ˈfʌŋ.ɡaɪ\
Letters5
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

fungi is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for fungi is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ˈfʌŋ.ɡaɪ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Pluriel de fungus.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for fungi in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 fungi, spelled F-U-N-G-I, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de fungus.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "fungi"?
"fungi" is spelled F-U-N-G-I. The IPA pronunciation is \ˈfʌŋ.ɡaɪ\.
What does "fungi" mean?
As a noun, "fungi" means: Pluriel de fungus.
How do you pronounce "fungi"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "fungi" is \ˈfʌŋ.ɡaɪ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "fungi" come from?
"fungi" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.