fon
\fɔ̃\
The verdict
“fon” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #27,443) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #27,443
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Langue parlée au Bénin et au Nigéria.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fon · fon · French
fon · rank #27,443 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,443
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH follow
Nearest frequency peer: follow (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « fon »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- foireux
foireux
72,562 corpus weight
- folklorique
folklorique
72,560 corpus weight
- follow
follow
72,559 corpus weight
- fon
fon
72,558 corpus weight
- foncez
foncez
72,557 corpus weight
- formateurs
formateurs
72,556 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « fon » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #27,443 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « fon »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for fon is neighbouring look-alikes ("ft", "Fs", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \fɔ̃\. Frequency #27,443 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Gloss: "Langue parlée au Bénin et au Nigéria.".
Zero misspellings are on record for fon in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ft", "Fs", "FP", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is fon, spelled F-O-N.
Definition
- 1Langue parlée au Bénin et au Nigéria.
Synonyms
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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