fomenter
\fɔ.mɑ̃.te\
The verdict
“fomenter” is uncommon French (frequency #56,602 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,602
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Soumettre à une fomentation pour « entretenir » la vie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fomenter · fomenter · French
fomenter · rank #56,602 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,602
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fiscaliste
Nearest frequency peer: fiscaliste (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « fomenter »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- filtrent
filtrent
43,401 corpus weight
- fiscaliste
fiscaliste
43,400 corpus weight
- fomenter
fomenter
43,399 corpus weight
- Forcalquier
Forcalquier
43,398 corpus weight
- forçage
forçage
43,397 corpus weight
- fougueuse
fougueuse
43,396 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fomenter » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fomenter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fɔ.mɑ̃.te\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #56,602 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fomenter » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fomenter is uncommon French at frequency #56,602 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \fɔ.mɑ̃.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for fomenter in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is fomenter, spelled F-O-M-E-N-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Soumettre à une fomentation pour « entretenir » la vie.
- 2Entretenir, attiser des actions, des sentiments violents et destructeurs.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fomenter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ainsi le premier établissement local des grandes chaînes de montagnes appartient à cette seconde époque, qui a précédé de plusieurs siècles celle de la formation des montagnes calcaires, lesquelles n’ont existé qu’après l’établissement des eaux, puisque leur composition suppose la production des coquillages et des autres substances que la mer fomente et n…
[…] ; d’autres encore affirmaient que son départ n’était qu’une manœuvre destinée à sauver la face, à faire croire à la population qu’il était le prisonnier de la France et à fomenter ainsi un mouvement francophobe.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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