cresson de fontaine
\kʁe.sɔ̃ de fɔ̃.tɛn\
The verdict
“cresson de fontaine” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 19
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Nom usuel de Nasturtium officinale plante potagère de la famille des Brassicaceae dont les feuilles sont mangées crues.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cresson de fontaine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁe.sɔ̃ de fɔ̃.tɛn\ |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cresson de fontaine” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for cresson de fontaine is 19 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kʁe.sɔ̃ de fɔ̃.tɛn\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Nom usuel de Nasturtium officinale plante potagère de la famille des Brassicaceae dont les feuilles sont mangées crues.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for cresson de fontaine, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is cresson de fontaine, spelled C-R-E-S-S-O-N- -D-E- -F-O-N-T-A-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Nom usuel de Nasturtium officinale plante potagère de la famille des Brassicaceae dont les feuilles sont mangées crues.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “cresson de fontaine”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-R-E-S-S-O-N- -D-E- -F-O-N-T-A-I-N-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.