état fondamental
\e.ta fɔ̃.da.mɑ̃.tal\
The verdict
“état fondamental” 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
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - État d’un noyau, d’un atome, ou d’une entité moléculaire, correspondant à son niveau d’énergie le plus bas.
| 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) |
Where “état fondamental” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for état fondamental is 16 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.ta fɔ̃.da.mɑ̃.tal\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
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.
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Using “état fondamental”
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- The one correct French spelling is É-T-A-T- -F-O-N-D-A-M-E-N-T-A-L - 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.