fondamentalement
French, adverb/fɔ̃.da.mɑ̃.tal.mɑ̃/
fondamentalement is spelled F-O-N-D-A-M-E-N-T-A-L-E-M-E-N-T (16 letters) and appears 4.3 times per million words in written French, the 12,541st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fondamentalement is a French adverb meaning “fundamentally” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Sur de bons fondements, sur de bons principes”.
What does fondamentalement mean in English?
adverb
- 1
fundamentally
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adverb: 1. Sur de bons fondements, sur de bons principes. 2. Au fond, essentiellement. 3. Totalement, complètement.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
How do you pronounce fondamentalement?
- /fɔ̃.da.mɑ̃.tal.mɑ̃/
- \fɔ̃.da.mɑ̃.tal.mɑ̃\
- [fɔ̃.da.mɑ̃.tal.mɑ̃]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to fondamentalement
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is fondamentalement in French?
fondamentalement appears 4.3 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).