fongible
\fɔ̃.ʒibl\
The verdict
“fongible” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Qui peut être remplacé par une chose de même nature, comme sont toutes celles qui se consomment par l’usage, et qui se règlent par nombre, poids ou mesure.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fongible · fongible · French
fongible · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "F" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fongible |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fɔ̃.ʒibl\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “fongible” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
fongible is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \fɔ̃.ʒibl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
fongible has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is fongible, spelled F-O-N-G-I-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Qui peut être remplacé par une chose de même nature, comme sont toutes celles qui se consomment par l’usage, et qui se règlent par nombre, poids ou mesure.
- 2Qui peut être remplacé par autre chose en se fondant, se dissolvant dans cette chose.
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