fontaines
\fɔ̃.tɛn\
The verdict
“fontaines” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,263. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,263
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de fontaine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fontaines · fontaines · French
fontaines · rank #14,263 · 13 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,263
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fondent
Nearest frequency peer: fondent (-1 rank slots)
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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « fontaines »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- exprimant
exprimant
85,741 corpus weight
- flippant
flippant
85,740 corpus weight
- fondent
fondent
85,739 corpus weight
- fontaines
fontaines
85,738 corpus weight
- foutue
foutue
85,737 corpus weight
- frange
frange
85,736 corpus weight
What this shows « fontaines » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fontaines |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɔ̃.tɛn\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #14,263 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « fontaines »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around fontaines (IPA \fɔ̃.tɛn\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #14,263 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de fontaine.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for fontaines, with forms such as "ffontaines", "fnotaines", and "fonatines". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "foutaises", "fontaine", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is fontaines, spelled F-O-N-T-A-I-N-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de fontaine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fontaines appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le moindre cacographe est membre d’une société savante, et ceux qui ne savent rien ou ne peuvent pas écrire comptent les fontaines de Paris, examinent les couleurs des numéros que le préfet impose aux maisons, et se prétendent occupés de statistique ; car la statistique est devenue à la mode, et c’est une position que de statistiquer.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffontaines
- fnotaines
- fonatines
- fonntaines
- fontaiens
- fontainess
- fontainnes
- fontainse
- fontanies
- fontianes
- fonttaines
- fotnaines
- ofntaines
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fontaines - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "fontaines", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).