fon
French, noun/fɔ̃/
fon is spelled F-O-N (3 letters) and appears 1.3 times per million words in written French, the 27,365th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fon is a French masculine noun meaning “Fon (language)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Langue parlée au Bénin et au Nigéria”.
What does fon mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineFon (language)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Langue parlée au Bénin et au Nigéria.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
How do you pronounce fon?
- /fɔ̃/
- \fɔ̃\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is fon in French?
fon appears 1.3 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).