fonçaille
\fɔ̃.saj\
The verdict
“fonçaille” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Barre de bois qui porte la paillasse d’un lit.
Corpus desk
Index FR-foncaille · fonçaille · French
fonçaille · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "F" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fonçaille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɔ̃.saj\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fonçaille » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fonçaille is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \fɔ̃.saj\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for fonçaille, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 fonçaille, spelled F-O-N-Ç-A-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Barre de bois qui porte la paillasse d’un lit.
- 2Planche utilisée pour former le fond d’une barrique ou d’un fût.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fonçaille appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le chef de famille prie un jeune couple en pleine santé et bon producteur de planter la perche de bambou derrière sa maison, ou bien il s'en sert comme fonçailles de son lit.
Une métayère, faisant devant moi l’éloge de son cher matou, assurait qu’il ne se passait pas une journée où il ne rapportât du dehors lapineau ou levraut, qu’on lui entendait croquer, en grommelant, sous la fonçaille du lit.
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.