front
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,393
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
front is aFrenchnoun. It means: Partie antérieure de quelque chose. → voir de front Pronounced \fʁɔ̃\. It ranks #1,393 in French word frequency. Often confused with fruit and frost.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | front |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fʁɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #1,393 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for front is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fʁɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,393 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 22 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for front, with forms such as "ffront", "fornt", and "frnot". 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, "fruit", "frost", "furent", 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 front, spelled F-R-O-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Partie antérieure de quelque chose. → voir de front
- 2Partie supérieure de la face.
- 3Partie du visage qui est comprise entre la racine des cheveux et les sourcils. → voir front bas et front haut
- 4Partie supérieure de la tête.
- 5La surface, la ligne, le point le plus avancé d'une chose qui progresse.
- 6Le point inférieur d'un glacier.
- 7Façade de l'épaisseur d'une partie d'un gisement exploité en un passage, dans une carrière.
- 8Partie visible du soi.
- 9Expression de l’état intérieur. → voir marcher le front haut et marcher le front levé
- 10Le siège de la dignité morale.
- 11Attitude sociale. → voir avoir le front et effronté
- 12Attitude adoptée, marquant la hardiesse, l’impudence.
- 13Partie supérieure de quelque chose.
- 14Partie la plus élevée d’un être.
- 15Façade d’un bâtiment.
- 16Ligne séparative entre deux choses mouvantes. → voir ligne de front
- 17Ligne évolutive d’une perturbation. → voir front froid, front chaud et front d’orage
- 18Ligne marquant la zone des combats. → voir à front renversé et monter au front
- 19Lieu d’expression des idées progressistes. → voir front commun
- 20Réceptacle des propositions sociétales.
- 21Mouvement populaire qui s’oppose à un ordre établi. Note d’usage : Utilisé essentiellement avec une majuscule. → voir Front populaire et Front de libération
- 22Domaine sur lequel les discussions sont vives.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ffront,fornt,frnot,fronnt,frontt,frotn,frront,rfont
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "front"
Frequency rank: #1,393 in French
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