fuscine
\fy.sin\
The verdict
“fuscine” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Trident analogue à celui de Neptune, dont se servaient les rétiaires.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fuscine · fuscine · French
fuscine · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "F" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fuscine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fy.sin\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fuscine » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fuscine is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \fy.sin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for fuscine, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is fuscine, spelled F-U-S-C-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Trident analogue à celui de Neptune, dont se servaient les rétiaires.
- 2Trident dont se servent les pêcheurs pour harponner le poisson.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fuscine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle péchait au harpon, à la fuscine, confiant la barre à l'un des jeunes gens.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.