fondement
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#8,245
in French word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
8
similar word pairs
fondement is aFrenchnoun. It means: Maçonnerie qui sert de base à un édifice ou à une construction, et qui se fait dans la terre jusqu’au rez-de-chaussée. Pronounced \fɔ̃d.mɑ̃\. It ranks #8,245 in French word frequency. Often confused with fondent and fortement.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fondement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɔ̃d.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #8,245 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for fondement is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fɔ̃d.mɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #8,245 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for fondement, with forms such as "ffondement", "fnodement", and "fodnement". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "fondent", "fortement", "forcement", 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 fondement, spelled F-O-N-D-E-M-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Maçonnerie qui sert de base à un édifice ou à une construction, et qui se fait dans la terre jusqu’au rez-de-chaussée.
- 2Tranchée ou fossé que l’on fait pour commencer à bâtir.
- 3La terre ou les rocs qui sont au-dessous de la base d’une montagne et qui la soutiennent.
- 4Ce qui sert de base à une thèse ou à une théorie.
- 5Ce qui fait le premier établissement d'une chose, ce qui le forme, ce qui le constitue.
- 6Ce qui sert de base, de principal soutien, de principal appui.
- 7Cause, motif, sujet.
- 8Le derrière et plus particulièrement l’anus, l’extrémité du gros intestin.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ffondement,fnodement,fodnement,fonddement,fondeemnt,fondemennt,fondementt,fondemetn,fondemment,fondemnet,fondmeent,fonedment,fonndement,ofndement
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for fondement
Misspelling Variants of "fondement"
Frequency rank: #8,245 in French
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Nearby French words
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