fusil
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,661
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
18
similar word pairs
fusil is aFrenchnoun. It means: Petite pièce d’acier avec laquelle on battait un silex pour en tirer du feu. Pronounced \fy.zi\. It ranks #5,661 in French word frequency. Often confused with fusion and fusils.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fusil |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fy.zi\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #5,661 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for fusil is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fy.zi\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,661 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for fusil, with forms such as "ffusil", "fsuil", and "fuisl". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 18 confusable-pair relationships, "fusion", "fusils", "futile", 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 fusil, spelled F-U-S-I-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Petite pièce d’acier avec laquelle on battait un silex pour en tirer du feu.
- 2Pièce d’acier qui couvrait le bassinet de certaines armes à feu, et contre laquelle donnait le silex qui était au chien.
- 3Arme à feu portative qu’on tire en l’épaulant, et munie d’un mécanisme dont le mouvement de percussion enflamme la poudre renfermée dans le canon.
- 4Habile tireur.
- 5Aiguisoir à couteaux constitué d'une tige d'acier finement striée dans le sens de la longueur et emmanchée.
- 6Meuble représentant l’arme du même nom dans les armoiries. Il est généralement représenté en fasce, la bouche du canon à dextre. C’est un meuble entré récemment (XVIIIème siècle) dans les armoiries européennes. C’est souvent une référence à la chasse.
- 7Estomac.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ffusil,fsuil,fuisl,fusill,fusli,fussil,ufsil
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for fusil
Misspelling Variants of "fusil"
Frequency rank: #5,661 in French
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