fût
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,062
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
fût is aFrenchnoun. It means: Bois sur lequel est monté le canon d’un fusil, d’une arquebuse, d’un pistolet, etc. Pronounced \fy\. It ranks #7,062 in French word frequency. Often confused with fûts and futur.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fût |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fy\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #7,062 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for fût is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fy\. Corpus data places it at rank #7,062 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for fût in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "fûts", "futur", "phu", 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 fût, spelled F-Û-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Bois sur lequel est monté le canon d’un fusil, d’une arquebuse, d’un pistolet, etc.
- 2Partie en bois d'un objet.
- 3Partie du tronc d’un arbre comprise entre le sol et les premiers rameaux.
- 4Tige de la colonne, partie qui est entre la base et le chapiteau.
- 5Colonne d’un candélabre ou d'un bougeoir.
- 6Trait vertical principal d’un caractère, aussi appelé hampe, haste ou montant.
- 7Tonneau où l’on met le vin ou un autre liquide.
- 8Partie de la queue faisant office de manche.
- 9Partie généralement cylindrique d'un tambour sur laquelle une ou deux peaux sont tendues
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #7,062 in French
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