fonte
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#8,855
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
fonte is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action de fondre, ou de se fondre, de se liquéfier. Pronounced \fɔ̃t\. It ranks #8,855 in French word frequency. Often confused with fort and foot.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fonte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɔ̃t\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #8,855 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for fonte is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fɔ̃t\. Corpus data places it at rank #8,855 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 13 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for fonte, with forms such as "ffonte", "fnote", and "fonet". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "fort", "foot", "fout", 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 fonte, spelled F-O-N-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Action de fondre, ou de se fondre, de se liquéfier.
- 2Action ou de l’art de mouler certains objets qu’on fait avec du bronze ou avec quelque autre métal fondu.
- 3Conversion des monnaies de cours en d’autres monnaies nouvelles.
- 4Alliage de fer riche de 2,14 à 6,67 % de carbone. C’est le produit immédiat du minerai de fer traité par le coke dans les hauts fourneaux, également nommé fer de fonte.
- 5Objet fait de ce matériau.
- 6Objet fait de ce matériau.
- 7Objet fait de ce matériau.
- 8Tout métal obtenu par un procédé similaire.
- 9Ensemble de tous les glyphes, c’est-à-dire de représentations visuelles de caractères, d’une même famille, de même style, corps et graisse.
- 10Caractère, type, ensemble des fontes d’une même famille.
- 11Fonte d’humeurs, nom donné autrefois aux évacuations abondantes de liquides intestinaux, bronchiques, salivaires, etc. parce qu’on les croyait dues à la liquéfaction de matières solides.
- 12Passage bien ménagé d’une teinte à une autre.
- 13Se dit du mélange des laines de différentes couleurs qui doivent entrer dans les tissus des draps ou autres étoffes.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ffonte,fnote,fonet,fonnte,fontte,fotne,ofnte
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "fonte"
Frequency rank: #8,855 in French
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Nearby French words
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