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fonts

French, noun/fɔ̃/

fonts is spelled F-O-N-T-S (5 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 39,210th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fonts is a French masculine noun meaning “church font, as that used for baptism” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Grand vaisseau de pierre, de marbre ou de bronze, où l’on conserve l’eau dont on se sert pour baptiser”.

What does fonts mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinechurch font, as that used for baptism

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Grand vaisseau de pierre, de marbre ou de bronze, où l’on conserve l’eau dont on se sert pour baptiser.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

How do you pronounce fonts?

  • /fɔ̃/
  • \fɔ̃\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to fonts

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is fonts in French?

fonts appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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