fondo
Spanish, noun/ˈfondo/
fondo is spelled F-O-N-D-O (5 letters) and appears 115 times per million words in written Spanish, the 765th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fondo is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “bottom” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Lugar más hacia dentro o profundo de un sitio cerrado”.
What does fondo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinebottom
- 2
masculineback
al fondo
- 3
masculinefund, funding
- 4
masculineground (bottom of a body of water)
- 5
masculineground, basis, foundation
- 6
masculineopposite side or extreme (of a house, store, room, corridor, street, field, tubing, piping, etc.), respect to the talker, entrance or beginning
- 7
masculinedip (exercise)
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Lugar más hacia dentro o profundo de un sitio cerrado. 2. Parte inferior dentro de un recipiente. 3. Olla alargada de gran capacidad. 4. Cantidad de dinero disponible.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of fondo
- fondos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce fondo?
- /ˈfondo/
- [ˈfõn̪.d̪o]
- [ˈfõn̪d̪o]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to fondo
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is fondo in Spanish?
fondo appears 115 times per million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).