fondo
\ˈfon.do\
The verdict
“fondo” is uncommon French (frequency #91,704 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,704
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fond.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fondo · fondo · French
fondo · rank #91,704 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,704
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH foliaires
Nearest frequency peer: foliaires (-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 « fondo »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- flies
flies
8,302 corpus weight
- foisonne
foisonne
8,299 corpus weight
- foliaires
foliaires
8,298 corpus weight
- fondo
fondo
8,297 corpus weight
- foramen
foramen
8,295 corpus weight
- fortuits
fortuits
8,294 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fondo » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fondo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈfon.do\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #91,704 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fondo » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fondo is uncommon French at frequency #91,704 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈfon.do\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for fondo in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is fondo, spelled F-O-N-D-O.
Definition
- 1Fond.
- 2Fonds.
- 3Marmite.
- 4Jardin ou patio à l’intérieur ou à l’arrière d’une maison (en Argentine, Équateur, Uruguay, Venezuela).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fondo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
José Arcadio Buendía pasó los largos meses de lluvia encerrado en un cuartito que construyó en el fondo de la casa para que nadie perturbara sus experimentos.
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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