fondre
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,829
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
fondre is aFrenchverb. It means: Liquéfier ou rendre fluide, au moyen de la chaleur, une substance plus ou moins solide. Pronounced \fɔ̃dʁ\. It ranks #7,829 in French word frequency. Often confused with fonds and fonte.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fondre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fɔ̃dʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #7,829 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for fondre is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fɔ̃dʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #7,829 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 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for fondre, with forms such as "ffondre", "fnodre", and "fodnre". 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", "fonte", "fondu", 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 fondre, spelled F-O-N-D-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Liquéfier ou rendre fluide, au moyen de la chaleur, une substance plus ou moins solide.
- 2Fabriquer, mouler certains objets avec des métaux que l’on fond à cet effet.
- 3Unir et combiner une chose avec une autre ; faire que deux ou plusieurs choses, auparavant distinctes, ne forment plus qu’un tout.
- 4Mêler des couleurs, des teintes contiguës, les joindre, de manière que le passage de l’une à l’autre soit ménagé.
- 5Disparaitre comme par fusion ou dissolution.
- 6Se liquéfier ; se dissoudre.
- 7Diminuer rapidement, se réduire à rien.
- 8S'attendrir, s'amollir, en parlant des choses morales.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ffondre,fnodre,fodnre,fonddre,fondrre,fonndre,fonrde,ofndre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for fondre
Misspelling Variants of "fondre"
Frequency rank: #7,829 in French
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