fronton
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#26,737
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
fronton is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ornement d’architecture qui est fait habituellement en triangle et qui se met en haut de l’entrée principale d’un bâtiment, au-dessus des portes, des croisées, etc. Pronounced \fʁɔ̃.tɔ̃\. Often confused with fronts and front.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fronton |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fʁɔ̃.tɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #26,737 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for fronton is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fʁɔ̃.tɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #26,737 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for fronton, with forms such as "ffronton", "fornton", and "frnoton". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "fronts", "front", "frontal", 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 fronton, spelled F-R-O-N-T-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ornement d’architecture qui est fait habituellement en triangle et qui se met en haut de l’entrée principale d’un bâtiment, au-dessus des portes, des croisées, etc.
- 2Mur sur lequel frappe la pelote.
- 3Terrain où l’on pratique la pelote basque.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ffronton,fornton,frnoton,fronnton,fronotn,frontno,frontonn,frontton,frotnon,frronton,rfonton
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for fronton
Misspelling Variants of "fronton"
Frequency rank: #26,737 in French
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