fondamentaliste
\fɔ̃.da.mɑ̃.ta.list\
The verdict
“fondamentaliste” is uncommon French (frequency #50,835 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,835
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partisan du fondamentalisme, du retour aux fondements de la religion, d’un principe, etc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fondamentaliste · fondamentaliste · French
fondamentaliste · rank #50,835 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,835
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH folioles
Nearest frequency peer: folioles (-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 « fondamentaliste »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- firmware
firmware
49,169 corpus weight
- flatteurs
flatteurs
49,168 corpus weight
- folioles
folioles
49,167 corpus weight
- fondamental…
fondamentaliste
49,166 corpus weight
- foreman
foreman
49,165 corpus weight
- formaldéhyde
formaldéhyde
49,164 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fondamentaliste » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fondamentaliste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɔ̃.da.mɑ̃.ta.list\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Frequency rank | #50,835 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fondamentaliste » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fondamentaliste is uncommon French at frequency #50,835 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fɔ̃.da.mɑ̃.ta.list\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
fondamentaliste has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is fondamentaliste, spelled F-O-N-D-A-M-E-N-T-A-L-I-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1Partisan du fondamentalisme, du retour aux fondements de la religion, d’un principe, etc.
- 2Partisan d'un retour à une vision originelle de la foi et de la doctrine chez les catholiques.
- 3Partisan de la vision traditionnelle de la religion chez les musulmans.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fondamentaliste appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Si vous êtes un chrétien fondamentaliste, probablement protesterez-vous que chaque mot de la Bible est littéralement vrai.
D'une certaine façon, le fondamentaliste nie la médiation d'une autorité religieuse – clergé, Église, docteurs de la loi – qui interpose habituellement une clé d'interprétation entre le croyant et le texte révélé.
This word in other languages
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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