fondamentaliste
French, noun/fɔ̃.da.mɑ̃.ta.list/
fondamentaliste is spelled F-O-N-D-A-M-E-N-T-A-L-I-S-T-E (15 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 50,716th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fondamentaliste is a French feminine noun meaning “fundamentalist” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Partisan du fondamentalisme, du retour aux fondements de la religion, d’un principe, etc”.
What does fondamentaliste mean in English?
adjective
- 1
fundamentalist
noun
- 1
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Near-synonym: intégriste
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Partisan du fondamentalisme, du retour aux fondements de la religion, d’un principe, etc. 2. Partisan d'un retour à une vision originelle de la foi et de la doctrine chez les catholiques. 3. Partisan de la vision traditionnelle de la religion chez les musulmans.
adjective: 1. Relatif au fondamentalisme, au retour aux fondements.
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.
Forms of fondamentaliste
- fondamentalistes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce fondamentaliste?
- /fɔ̃.da.mɑ̃.ta.list/
- \fɔ̃.da.mɑ̃.ta.list\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to fondamentaliste
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is fondamentaliste in French?
fondamentaliste appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).