fonces
\fɔ̃s\
The verdict
“fonces” is uncommon French (frequency #74,807 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,807
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de foncer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fonces · fonces · French
fonces · rank #74,807 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,807
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fléchés
Nearest frequency peer: fléchés (-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 « fonces »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- florette
florette
25,197 corpus weight
- floris
floris
25,196 corpus weight
- fléchés
fléchés
25,195 corpus weight
- fonces
fonces
25,194 corpus weight
- fondera
fondera
25,193 corpus weight
- fongicide
fongicide
25,192 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fonces » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fonces |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fɔ̃s\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #74,807 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fonces » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fonces is uncommon French at frequency #74,807 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \fɔ̃s\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for fonces, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is fonces, spelled F-O-N-C-E-S.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de foncer.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif 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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