fondez
\fɔ̃.de\
The verdict
“fondez” is uncommon French (frequency #82,042 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,042
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de fonder.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fondez · fondez · French
fondez · rank #82,042 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,042
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH foglia
Nearest frequency peer: foglia (-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 « fondez »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- flippes
flippes
17,963 corpus weight
- flétan
flétan
17,962 corpus weight
- foglia
foglia
17,960 corpus weight
- fondez
fondez
17,959 corpus weight
- frag
frag
17,957 corpus weight
- França
França
17,955 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fondez » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fondez |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fɔ̃.de\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #82,042 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fondez » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fondez is uncommon French at frequency #82,042 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \fɔ̃.de\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for fondez, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 fondez, spelled F-O-N-D-E-Z.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de fonder.
- 2Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’impératif de fonder.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).