fondation
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,576
in French word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
fondation is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action de fonder, de bâtir la base de quelque chose ; commencement de quelque chose de durable. Pronounced \fɔ̃.da.sjɔ̃\. It ranks #2,576 in French word frequency. Often confused with formation and fondations.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fondation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɔ̃.da.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #2,576 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for fondation is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fɔ̃.da.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,576 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for fondation, with forms such as "ffondation", "fnodation", and "fodnation". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "formation", "fondations", "foundation", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is fondation, spelled F-O-N-D-A-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Action de fonder, de bâtir la base de quelque chose ; commencement de quelque chose de durable.
- 2Travail que l’on fait pour asseoir les fondements d’un édifice, d’une construction.
- 3Fondement, base d'une construction.
- 4Fossé, tranchée que l’on fait pour y placer les fondements.
- 5Masse de biens affectée pour réaliser une œuvre d’intérêt général à but non lucratif (de piété, caritatif, artistique, etc.)
- 6Base, fondement, usage traditionnel, une règle qui perdure.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ffondation,fnodation,fodnation,fonadtion,fondaiton,fondatino,fondationn,fondatoin,fondattion,fonddation,fondtaion,fonndation,ofndation
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for fondation
Misspelling Variants of "fondation"
Frequency rank: #2,576 in French
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