fonds
French, noun/fɔ̃/
fonds is spelled F-O-N-D-S (5 letters) and appears 79 times per million words in written French, the 1,060th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fonds is a French masculine noun meaning “fund, funds” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a plural of fond. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Ensemble de biens matériels ou immatériels servant à l’usage principal d’une activité”.
What does fonds mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinefund, funds
- 2
masculineresources
- 3
Switzerlandmasculinefield
noun
- 1
masculineplural of fond
verb
- 1
first/second-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Ensemble de biens matériels ou immatériels servant à l’usage principal d’une activité. 2. Biens ou matière constituant l’objet principal d’une collection, d’un ensemble, d’une œuvre. 3. Ensemble de qualités d’une personne. 4. Réserve d’argent ou de valeurs destinée à un usage donné.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
How do you pronounce fonds?
- /fɔ̃/
- \fɔ̃\
- [fɔ̃]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to fonds
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is fonds in French?
fonds appears 79 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).