fonça
\fɔ̃.sa\
The verdict
“fonça” is uncommon French (frequency #96,940 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,940
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de foncer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fonca · fonça · French
fonça · rank #96,940 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,940
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH foodporn
Nearest frequency peer: foodporn (+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 « fonça »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fléchées
fléchées
3,066 corpus weight
- focalisées
focalisées
3,063 corpus weight
- fonça
fonça
3,061 corpus weight
- foodporn
foodporn
3,060 corpus weight
- forem
forem
3,059 corpus weight
- forti
forti
3,058 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fonça » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fonça |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fɔ̃.sa\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #96,940 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fonça » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fonça is uncommon French at frequency #96,940 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \fɔ̃.sa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de foncer.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for fonça, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is fonça, spelled F-O-N-Ç-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de foncer.
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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