détournement de fonds
\de.tuʁ.nə.mɑ̃ də fɔ̃\
The verdict
“détournement de fonds” 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
- 21
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Délit d’appropriation de sommes, de titres dont on n’a pas la pleine propriété.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | détournement de fonds |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.tuʁ.nə.mɑ̃ də fɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 21 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “détournement de fonds” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for détournement de fonds is 21 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \de.tuʁ.nə.mɑ̃ də fɔ̃\. 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: "Délit d’appropriation de sommes, de titres dont on n’a pas la pleine propriété.".
détournement de fonds doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is détournement de fonds, spelled D-É-T-O-U-R-N-E-M-E-N-T- -D-E- -F-O-N-D-S.
Definition
- 1Délit d’appropriation de sommes, de titres dont on n’a pas la pleine propriété.
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 “détournement de fonds”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is D-É-T-O-U-R-N-E-M-E-N-T- -D-E- -F-O-N-D-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \de.tuʁ.nə.mɑ̃ də fɔ̃\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.