Fontan
The verdict
“Fontan” is uncommon French (frequency #82,962 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,962
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fontan · Fontan · French
Fontan · rank #82,962 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,962
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH formaliste
Nearest frequency peer: formaliste (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « Fontan »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- flesh
flesh
17,045 corpus weight
- flottage
flottage
17,043 corpus weight
- Fontan
Fontan
17,039 corpus weight
- formaliste
formaliste
17,038 corpus weight
- fouettez
fouettez
17,037 corpus weight
- franchisse
franchisse
17,033 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Fontan » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Fontan |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #82,962 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Fontan » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Fontan is uncommon French at frequency #82,962 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Fontan has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Fontan, spelled F-O-N-T-A-N.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Fontan appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ces derniers voient la petite bande inventer de faux parents au héros, qui va convoler avec sa belle (Élodie Fontan).
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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