fondante
\fɔ̃.dɑ̃t\
The verdict
“fondante” is uncommon French (frequency #53,353 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,353
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de fondant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fondante · fondante · French
fondante · rank #53,353 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,353
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH focalisant
Nearest frequency peer: focalisant (-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 « fondante »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- flambé
flambé
46,652 corpus weight
- FLNC
FLNC
46,651 corpus weight
- focalisant
focalisant
46,649 corpus weight
- fondante
fondante
46,648 corpus weight
- foss
foss
46,646 corpus weight
- fournirait
fournirait
46,645 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fondante » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fondante |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fɔ̃.dɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #53,353 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fondante » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fondante is uncommon French at frequency #53,353 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \fɔ̃.dɑ̃t\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de fondant.".
No misspelling variants are generated for fondante in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is fondante, spelled F-O-N-D-A-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de fondant.
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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