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font

/fɑnt/noun, verb

font is spelled F-O-N-T: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 6.3 times per million words in written English, the 9,594th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “font vs fount” about 90 times a month (Google, United States). As a noun, font means “A receptacle in a church for holy water, especially one used in baptism” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of font is fonts.

How many letters and syllables are in font?

Letters4: F-O-N-T
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing6.3 times per million words; the 9,594th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Pairs people search
Rhymes with

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is font?

Font appears 6.3 times per million words in written English, the 9,594th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce font?

  • UK /fɒnt/
  • US /fɑnt/

Font has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-font.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Words people confuse with font

Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).

font vs fount90 G

Also written: fount.

Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

What rhymes with font?

The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as font from its last stressed vowel (/ɑnt/):

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of font

  • fonts plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • fonting participle, present
  • fonted participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does font mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A receptacle in a church for holy water, especially one used in baptism.

    She dipped her fingers in the font and crossed herself.

  2. 2

    A receptacle for lamp oil in a lamp.

  3. 3

    In metal typesetting, a set of type sorts in one size.

  4. 4

    In phototypesetting, a set of patterns forming glyphs of any size, or the film they are stored on.

  5. 5

    In digital typesetting, a set of glyphs in a single style, representing one or more alphabets or writing systems, or the computer code representing it.

  6. 6

    informalA typeface.

  7. 7

    A computer file containing the code used to draw and compose the glyphs of one or more typographic fonts on a computer display or printer.

    They bought a license for the Gulliver font and installed that font on several machines.

  8. 8

    informalThe design of any text.

    I like the font of this logo.

  9. 9

    A source, wellspring, fount.

verb

  1. 1

    informalTo overlay (text) on the picture.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Font in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchfonts (a receptacle in church for holy water), fonte, police (typesetting: a grouping of…), police d'écriture (computer file used to draw glyphs)
GermanWeihwasserbecken, Taufbecken (a receptacle in church for holy water), Schriftart, Schrift (typesetting: a grouping of…), Font (computer file used to draw glyphs), Ölreservoir (a receptacle for oil in a lamp)
Portuguesepia, fonte (a receptacle in church for holy water), letra, tipo de letra (typesetting: a grouping of…)
Spanishpila (a receptacle in church for holy water), tipo de letra, tipografía, fuente (typesetting: a grouping of…), depósito (a receptacle for oil in a lamp)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does font come from?

From Old English font, an early borrowing from Latin fōns, fontis (“fountain”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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