fuyant
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#15,888
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
10
similar word pairs
fuyant is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui va en arrière. Often confused with furent and fixant.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fuyant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #15,888 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for fuyant is 6 letters long, classified as anadj. Corpus data places it at rank #15,888 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for fuyant, with forms such as "ffuyant", "fuaynt", and "fuyannt". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "furent", "fixant", "fuient", 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 fuyant, spelled F-U-Y-A-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui va en arrière.
- 2Tout ce qui, comparé à un autre objet, paraît s’enfoncer dans le tableau.
- 3Qualifie l'échelle qu’on trace pour trouver la diminution des objets, relativement à leur enfoncement.
- 4Qui se dérobe aux déclarations franches.
- 5Qualifie un regard très mobile mais jamais dirigé sur l’interlocuteur.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ffuyant,fuaynt,fuyannt,fuyantt,fuyatn,fuynat,fuyyant,fyuant,ufyant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for fuyant
Misspelling Variants of "fuyant"
Frequency rank: #15,888 in French
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Nearby French words
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