fondamentale
\fɔ̃.da.mɑ̃.tal\
The verdict
“fondamentale” has 18 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,059. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,059
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 18
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Note de référence d'un accord lui donnant son nom. À ne pas confondre avec la note la plus grave d'un accord : sa basse. Ces deux notions ne concordent que lorsque l'accord est présenté comme empil...
Corpus desk
Index FR-fondamentale · fondamentale · French
fondamentale · rank #7,059 · 18 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,059
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 18 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH foncé
Nearest frequency peer: foncé (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « fondamentale »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- envisage
envisage
92,945 corpus weight
- exécuter
exécuter
92,944 corpus weight
- foncé
foncé
92,943 corpus weight
- fondamentale
fondamentale
92,942 corpus weight
- franche
franche
92,941 corpus weight
- féministe
féministe
92,940 corpus weight
What this shows « fondamentale » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fondamentale |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɔ̃.da.mɑ̃.tal\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #7,059 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « fondamentale »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 18 spelling variants around fondamentale (IPA \fɔ̃.da.mɑ̃.tal\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,059 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Note de référence d'un accord lui donnant son nom. À ne pas confondre avec la note la plus grave d'un accord : sa basse. Ces deux notions ne concordent que lorsque l'accord est présenté comme empil...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for fondamentale, with forms such as "ffondamentale", "fnodamentale", and "fodnamentale". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "fondamentaux", "fondamentales", "fondamental", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is fondamentale, spelled F-O-N-D-A-M-E-N-T-A-L-E.
Definition
- 1Note de référence d'un accord lui donnant son nom. À ne pas confondre avec la note la plus grave d'un accord : sa basse. Ces deux notions ne concordent que lorsque l'accord est présenté comme empilement de tierces, on dit alors qu'il est à l’état fondamental.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fondamentale appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans l'accord de sol majeur (sol-si-ré), la fondamentale est le sol.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffondamentale
- fnodamentale
- fodnamentale
- fonadmentale
- fondaemntale
- fondamenatle
- fondamenntale
- fondamentael
- fondamentalle
- fondamentlae
- fondamenttale
- fondametnale
- fondammentale
- fondamnetale
- fonddamentale
- fondmaentale
- fonndamentale
- ofndamentale
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fondamentale - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (18 here; floor ≥5).