état fondamental
\e.ta fɔ̃.da.mɑ̃.tal\
The verdict
“état fondamental” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - État d’un noyau, d’un atome, ou d’une entité moléculaire, correspondant à son niveau d’énergie le plus bas.
Corpus desk
Index FR-etat-fondamental · état fondamental · French
état fondamental · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 16 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "É" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | état fondamental |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.ta fɔ̃.da.mɑ̃.tal\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
état fondamental is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \e.ta fɔ̃.da.mɑ̃.tal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for état fondamental in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is état fondamental, spelled É-T-A-T- -F-O-N-D-A-M-E-N-T-A-L.
Definition
- 1État d’un noyau, d’un atome, ou d’une entité moléculaire, correspondant à son niveau d’énergie le plus bas.
- 2Désigne un accord dans lequel les notes, prises de bas en haut, forment un empilement de tierces. La note la plus grave est alors appelée « fondamentale ».
- 3Désigne un accord dont la note la plus grave, appelée « basse », est la fondamentale de l’accord (l’ordre des notes plus aiguës pouvant varier).
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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.