fondamental
Letters
11 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,323
in French word usage
Misspellings
17
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
fondamental is anFrenchadj. It means: Ce qui précède le commencement, l'origine de toute chose, qui est au fondement de. Pronounced \fɔ̃.da.mɑ̃.tal\. It ranks #7,323 in French word frequency. Often confused with fondamentaux and fondamentale.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fondamental |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \fɔ̃.da.mɑ̃.tal\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #7,323 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for fondamental is 11 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fɔ̃.da.mɑ̃.tal\. Corpus data places it at rank #7,323 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for fondamental, with forms such as "ffondamental", "fnodamental", and "fodnamental". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "fondamentaux", "fondamentale", "fondamentales", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is fondamental, spelled F-O-N-D-A-M-E-N-T-A-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ce qui précède le commencement, l'origine de toute chose, qui est au fondement de.
- 2Qui sert de fondement à un édifice, à une construction.
- 3Qui est principal, essentiel.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ffondamental,fnodamental,fodnamental,fonadmental,fondaemntal,fondamenatl,fondamenntal,fondamentall,fondamentla,fondamenttal,fondametnal,fondammental,fondamnetal,fonddamental,fondmaental,fonndamental,ofndamental
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for fondamental
Misspelling Variants of "fondamental"
Frequency rank: #7,323 in French
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