fonds
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,062
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
fonds is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ensemble de biens matériels ou immatériels servant à l’usage principal d’une activité. Pronounced \fɔ̃\. It ranks #1,062 in French word frequency. Often confused with Fos and font.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fonds |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #1,062 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for fonds is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,062 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 fonds, with forms such as "ffonds", "fnods", and "fodns". 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, "Fos", "font", "fous", 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 fonds, spelled F-O-N-D-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ensemble de biens matériels ou immatériels servant à l’usage principal d’une activité.
- 2Biens ou matière constituant l’objet principal d’une collection, d’un ensemble, d’une œuvre.
- 3Ensemble de qualités d’une personne.
- 4Réserve d’argent ou de valeurs destinée à un usage donné.
- 5Bien-fonds ; immeuble ; bâtisse.
- 6Être en état (de faire quelque chose).
- 7Somme que le joueur doit mettre sur une certaine carte.
- 8Galeries horizontales partant du fond du puits et poussées jusqu’aux limites de l’exploitation.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ffonds,fnods,fodns,fondds,fondss,fonnds,fonsd,ofnds
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for fonds
Misspelling Variants of "fonds"
Frequency rank: #1,062 in French
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Nearby French words
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