fonder
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,963
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
fonder is aFrenchverb. It means: Asseoir un bâtiment, un édifice sur des fondements. Pronounced \fɔ̃.de\. It ranks #7,963 in French word frequency. Often confused with fonds and foyer.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fonder |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fɔ̃.de\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #7,963 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for fonder is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fɔ̃.de\. Corpus data places it at rank #7,963 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for fonder, with forms such as "ffonder", "fnoder", and "fodner". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "fonds", "foyer", "fonte", 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 fonder, spelled F-O-N-D-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Asseoir un bâtiment, un édifice sur des fondements.
- 2…
- 3…
- 4Établir.
- 5Créer un établissement, une œuvre louable, utile en les dotant des fonds nécessaires pour leur entretien.
- 6Prendre quelque chose comme preuve ou quelqu’un comme appui ou garant de ce que l’on dit, de ce que l’on pense, de ce que l’on croit.
- 7S’appuyer sur quelque chose à propos de ce qu’on dit, de ce qu’on croit ou de ce qu’on pense.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ffonder,fnoder,fodner,fondder,fonderr,fonedr,fonnder,ofnder
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "fonder"
Frequency rank: #7,963 in French
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Nearby French words
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