fuyant

adj

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The verdict

“fuyant” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,888. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#15,888
frequency rank, French
3,276
“F” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
10
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui va en arrière.

Corpus desk

Index FR-fuyant · fuyant · French

fuyant · rank #15,888 · 9 variants · 10 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #15,888
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,276
  • PHOTO-FINISH fusées

Nearest frequency peer: fusées (-1 rank slots)

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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « fuyant »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « fuyant » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

fuyant vs furent
67% similar
fuyant vs fixant
67% similar
fuyant vs fuient
67% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for fuyant
PropertyValue
Headwordfuyant
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
Letters6
Frequency rank#15,888
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs10
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « fuyant »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.fuyantse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « fusées » (#15,887), « garderie » (#15,889), « fuient » (#15,886). Parmi 3,276 lemmes en « F », « fuyant » est au #15,888. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around fuyant, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #15,888 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for fuyant, with forms such as "ffuyant", "fuaynt", and "fuyannt". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "furent", "fixant", "fuient", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is fuyant, spelled F-U-Y-A-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui va en arrière.
  2. 2
    Tout ce qui, comparé à un autre objet, paraît s’enfoncer dans le tableau.
  3. 3
    Qualifie l'échelle qu’on trace pour trouver la diminution des objets, relativement à leur enfoncement.
  4. 4
    Qui se dérobe aux déclarations franches.
  5. 5
    Qualifie un regard très mobile mais jamais dirigé sur l’interlocuteur.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how fuyant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Front fuyant.
  2. La bouche était indécise et molle, le menton fuyant, le nez camus; les yeux louchaient, ne louchaient pas tellement, louchaient un peu, si peu !

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ffuyant
  • fuaynt
  • fuyannt
  • fuyantt
  • fuyatn
  • fuynat
  • fuyyant
  • fyuant
  • ufyant

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fuyant - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

ffuyant1fuaynt2fuyannt1fuyantt1fuyatn2fuynat2fuyyant1fyuant2
Edit distance from "fuyant"

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "fuyant"?
"fuyant" is spelled F-U-Y-A-N-T.
What does "fuyant" mean?
As an adjective, "fuyant" means: Qui va en arrière.
What words are commonly confused with "fuyant"?
"fuyant" is commonly confused with "furent", "fixant", "fuient". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "fuyant" come from?
"fuyant" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "fuyant", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

fusées#15,887fuient#15,886Gérald#15,897envole#15,873

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

jogging9 variantslances9 variantslarves9 variantsminces9 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list