Fontenoy
\fɔ̃t.nwa\
The verdict
“Fontenoy” is uncommon French (frequency #54,597 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,597
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département de l’Aisne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fontenoy · Fontenoy · French
Fontenoy · rank #54,597 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,597
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH franquiste
Nearest frequency peer: franquiste (+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 « Fontenoy »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- flush
flush
45,407 corpus weight
- follicules
follicules
45,406 corpus weight
- Fontenoy
Fontenoy
45,404 corpus weight
- franquiste
franquiste
45,403 corpus weight
- Frenchy
Frenchy
45,402 corpus weight
- frette
frette
45,401 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Fontenoy » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Fontenoy |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \fɔ̃t.nwa\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #54,597 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Fontenoy » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Fontenoy is uncommon French at frequency #54,597 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \fɔ̃t.nwa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Fontenoy has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Fontenoy, spelled F-O-N-T-E-N-O-Y.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département de l’Aisne.
- 2Commune française, située dans le département de l’Yonne.
- 3Section de la commune de Antoing en Belgique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Fontenoy appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tout d'abord, s'il y avait eu quarante mille tués du seul côté de Lothaire et de Pépin, cela supposerait un total d'une centaine de milliers de combattants : comment auraient-ils pu tenir ensemble dans le petit espace circonscrit par les villages de Fontenoy, Levis, Sementron et Coulon ?
– Donnez-moi à boire et je vais vous narrer la bataille de Fontenoy, où je fus. Nous y abîmâmes les Anglais. Il y avait aussi contre nous, dans cette bataille, des Autrichiens, des Hollandais et, s’il m’en souvient, des Allemands ; mais ces individus-là ne comptent pas. La France n’a qu’un seul ennemi, l’Angleterre.
Synonyms
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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