fuzzy
\ˈfʌ.zi\
The verdict
“fuzzy” is uncommon French (frequency #76,600 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,600
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Flou, vague, imprécis.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fuzzy · fuzzy · French
fuzzy · rank #76,600 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,600
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fustigeant
Nearest frequency peer: fustigeant (-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 « fuzzy »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fripouille
fripouille
23,406 corpus weight
- frontera
frontera
23,405 corpus weight
- Fukuoka
Fukuoka
23,403 corpus weight
- fustigeant
fustigeant
23,402 corpus weight
- fuzzy
fuzzy
23,401 corpus weight
- féconds
féconds
23,399 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fuzzy » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fuzzy |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈfʌ.zi\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #76,600 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fuzzy » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fuzzy is uncommon French at frequency #76,600 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ˈfʌ.zi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Flou, vague, imprécis.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for fuzzy, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is fuzzy, spelled F-U-Z-Z-Y.
Definition
- 1Flou, vague, imprécis.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fuzzy appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
My recollection of that event is fuzzy.
Synonyms
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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