fuyard
\fɥi.jaʁ\
The verdict
“fuyard” is uncommon French (frequency #55,302 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,302
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui s'enfuit.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fuyard · fuyard · French
fuyard · rank #55,302 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,302
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fumet
Nearest frequency peer: fumet (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « fuyard »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Franprix
Franprix
44,703 corpus weight
- fréquentable
fréquentable
44,701 corpus weight
- fumet
fumet
44,700 corpus weight
- fuyard
fuyard
44,699 corpus weight
- gagnerons
gagnerons
44,698 corpus weight
- Garches
Garches
44,696 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fuyard » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fuyard |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fɥi.jaʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #55,302 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fuyard » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fuyard is uncommon French at frequency #55,302 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \fɥi.jaʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui s'enfuit.".
No misspelling variants are generated for fuyard in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is fuyard, spelled F-U-Y-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1Qui s'enfuit.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fuyard appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les lièvres polaires, […]. Ils se montraient moins fuyards que leurs congénères d'Europe, et se laissaient tuer assez stupidement.
Désormais je serai d’une férocité hyrcanienne, froid comme Hippolyte et fuyard des femmes, ainsi que Joseph.
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.
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