fond

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The English entry for fond is 4 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /fɒnd/. Corpus data places it at rank #8,424 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for fond, with forms such as "ffond", "fnod", and "fodn". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "for", "fun", "fox", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English fond, fonned, past participle of fonnen (“to be foolish, be simple, dote”), equivalent to fon + -ed. More at fon. Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is fond, spelled F-O-N-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.