fredonner
\fʁə.dɔ.ne\
The verdict
“fredonner” is uncommon French (frequency #65,168 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,168
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faire des fredons.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fredonner · fredonner · French
fredonner · rank #65,168 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,168
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH franquisme
Nearest frequency peer: franquisme (-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 « fredonner »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fors
fors
34,837 corpus weight
- franchira
franchira
34,835 corpus weight
- franquisme
franquisme
34,834 corpus weight
- fredonner
fredonner
34,833 corpus weight
- frisons
frisons
34,831 corpus weight
- frénétiques
frénétiques
34,829 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fredonner » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fredonner |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fʁə.dɔ.ne\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #65,168 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fredonner » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fredonner is uncommon French at frequency #65,168 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \fʁə.dɔ.ne\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
fredonner doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 fredonner, spelled F-R-E-D-O-N-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1Faire des fredons.
- 2Chanter entre ses dents, sans articuler d’une manière distincte et sans y apporter d’attention.
- 3Chanter entre ses dents.
- 4Chanter, en parlant de la fauvette.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fredonner appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Voilà l'image de ma vie :je devrais fredonner gaiement sous la douche, tout à la joie de ce jour nouveau, et je m'engonce dans l’amère moiteur de maussades ruminements.
Lorsqu’il est au piano, il fredonne tout ce qu’il joue. Les ingénieurs le prient de ne pas fredonner ainsi, de peur que cela ne s’entende dans le disque. Il cesse pendant quelques instants puis oublie la recommandation et recommence. Nouvelles plaintes des ingénieurs. Finalement, Basie s’enfonce dans la bouche un mouchoir pour se mettre à l’abri des distr…
This word in other languages
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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