fonçait
\fɔ̃.sɛ\
The verdict
“fonçait” is uncommon French (frequency #69,848 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,848
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de foncer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-foncait · fonçait · French
fonçait · rank #69,848 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,848
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fonctionna
Nearest frequency peer: fonctionna (-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 « fonçait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- foireuses
foireuses
30,156 corpus weight
- folks
folks
30,155 corpus weight
- fonctionna
fonctionna
30,154 corpus weight
- fonçait
fonçait
30,153 corpus weight
- fourchue
fourchue
30,151 corpus weight
- FPF
FPF
30,150 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fonçait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fonçait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fɔ̃.sɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #69,848 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fonçait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fonçait is uncommon French at frequency #69,848 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \fɔ̃.sɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de foncer.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for fonçait, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is fonçait, spelled F-O-N-Ç-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif 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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