frontons
\fʁɔ̃.tɔ̃\
The verdict
“frontons” is uncommon French (frequency #61,547 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,547
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de fronton.
Corpus desk
Index FR-frontons · frontons · French
frontons · rank #61,547 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,547
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH Frontignan
Nearest frequency peer: Frontignan (-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 « frontons »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fringants
fringants
38,457 corpus weight
- frivoles
frivoles
38,456 corpus weight
- Frontignan
Frontignan
38,455 corpus weight
- frontons
frontons
38,454 corpus weight
- fréquentez
fréquentez
38,453 corpus weight
- fuckin
fuckin
38,451 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « frontons » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | frontons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fʁɔ̃.tɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #61,547 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « frontons » en français
Rare enough to double-check
frontons is uncommon French at frequency #61,547 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fʁɔ̃.tɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de fronton.".
frontons has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 frontons, spelled F-R-O-N-T-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de fronton.
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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