fortuna
\fɔr.ˈtu.na\
The verdict
“fortuna” is uncommon French (frequency #50,838 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,838
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fortune, hasard, chance.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fortuna · fortuna · French
fortuna · rank #50,838 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,838
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH formaldéhyde
Nearest frequency peer: formaldéhyde (-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 « fortuna »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fondamental…
fondamentaliste
49,166 corpus weight
- foreman
foreman
49,165 corpus weight
- formaldéhyde
formaldéhyde
49,164 corpus weight
- fortuna
fortuna
49,163 corpus weight
- forçats
forçats
49,162 corpus weight
- Fragonard
Fragonard
49,161 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fortuna » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fortuna |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɔr.ˈtu.na\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #50,838 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fortuna » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fortuna is uncommon French at frequency #50,838 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fɔr.ˈtu.na\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Fortune, hasard, chance.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for fortuna, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is fortuna, spelled F-O-R-T-U-N-A.
Definition
- 1Fortune, hasard, chance.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fortuna appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Buona fortuna!
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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