fontaine
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,671
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
fontaine is aFrenchnoun. It means: Eau vive qui sort de terre. Pronounced \fɔ̃.tɛn\. It ranks #4,671 in French word frequency. Often confused with foraine and fontana.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fontaine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɔ̃.tɛn\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #4,671 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for fontaine is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fɔ̃.tɛn\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,671 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 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for fontaine, with forms such as "ffontaine", "fnotaine", and "fonatine". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "foraine", "fontana", "foutaise", 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 fontaine, spelled F-O-N-T-A-I-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Eau vive qui sort de terre.
- 2Corps d’architecture qui sert pour l’écoulement, pour le jeu des eaux d’une fontaine.
- 3Appareil distribuant une boisson.
- 4Récipient dans lequel on garde de l’eau, pour les usages domestiques.
- 5Machine d’où l’on fait jaillir un liquide par la pression et la force élastique de l’air.
- 6Figure faite avec un nombre pair d’objets qui consiste à lancer chacun à la même main.
- 7Tas de farine au centre duquel on fait un trou en vue d’y incorporer un liquide, un œuf, etc.
- 8Meuble représentant la construction du même nom dans les armoiries. Elle est généralement représentée selon la construction à laquelle elle fait référence (certains auteurs précisent alors dans le blasonnement qu’elle est du lieu). Elle est dite jaillissante quand les jets d’eau sont d'un autre émail.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ffontaine,fnotaine,fonatine,fonntaine,fontaien,fontainne,fontanie,fontiane,fonttaine,fotnaine,ofntaine
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for fontaine
Misspelling Variants of "fontaine"
Frequency rank: #4,671 in French
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