fondants
\fɔ̃.dɑ̃\
The verdict
“fondants” is uncommon French (frequency #66,743 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,743
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de fondant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fondants · fondants · French
fondants · rank #66,743 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,743
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH flushing
Nearest frequency peer: flushing (-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 « fondants »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fleurette
fleurette
33,261 corpus weight
- fluctuer
fluctuer
33,260 corpus weight
- flushing
flushing
33,259 corpus weight
- fondants
fondants
33,258 corpus weight
- fongique
fongique
33,257 corpus weight
- foreuse
foreuse
33,256 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fondants » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fondants |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fɔ̃.dɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #66,743 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fondants » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fondants is uncommon French at frequency #66,743 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \fɔ̃.dɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de fondant.".
fondants doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is fondants, spelled F-O-N-D-A-N-T-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de fondant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fondants appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des petits croissants autrichiens à la vanille, si fondants et parfumés qu’ils ne resteront pas longtemps dans la boîte à biscuits.
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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