fonds de roulement
The verdict
“fonds de roulement” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 18
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Excédent de capitaux stables, par rapport aux emplois durables, utilisé pour financer une partie des actifs circulants.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fonds de roulement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɔ̃ d(ə) ʁul.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “fonds de roulement” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for fonds de roulement is 18 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fɔ̃ d(ə) ʁul.mɑ̃\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Excédent de capitaux stables, par rapport aux emplois durables, utilisé pour financer une partie des actifs circulants.".
No misspelling variants are generated for fonds de roulement in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 de roulement, spelled F-O-N-D-S- -D-E- -R-O-U-L-E-M-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Excédent de capitaux stables, par rapport aux emplois durables, utilisé pour financer une partie des actifs circulants.
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- The one correct French spelling is F-O-N-D-S- -D-E- -R-O-U-L-E-M-E-N-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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