fonctionna
\fɔ̃k.sjɔ.na\
The verdict
“fonctionna” is uncommon French (frequency #69,847 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,847
- 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 fonctionner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fonctionna · fonctionna · French
fonctionna · rank #69,847 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,847
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH folks
Nearest frequency peer: folks (-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 « fonctionna »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fluid
fluid
30,157 corpus weight
- 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
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fonctionna » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fonctionna |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fɔ̃k.sjɔ.na\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #69,847 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fonctionna » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fonctionna is uncommon French at frequency #69,847 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \fɔ̃k.sjɔ.na\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de fonctionner.".
No misspelling variants are generated for fonctionna in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is fonctionna, spelled F-O-N-C-T-I-O-N-N-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de fonctionner.
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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