fundamental
\fʊndamɛnˈtaːl\
The verdict
“fundamental” is uncommon French (frequency #91,717 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,717
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fondamental.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fundamental · fundamental · French
fundamental · rank #91,717 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,717
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fuyante
Nearest frequency peer: fuyante (+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 « fundamental »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- froissement
froissement
8,287 corpus weight
- FSH
FSH
8,286 corpus weight
- fundamental
fundamental
8,284 corpus weight
- fuyante
fuyante
8,283 corpus weight
- Féron
Féron
8,282 corpus weight
- Gabel
Gabel
8,280 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fundamental » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fundamental |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fʊndamɛnˈtaːl\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #91,717 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fundamental » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fundamental is uncommon French at frequency #91,717 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \fʊndamɛnˈtaːl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Fondamental.".
fundamental has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is fundamental, spelled F-U-N-D-A-M-E-N-T-A-L.
Definition
- 1Fondamental.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fundamental appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Damit verwischt die Riesenmikrobe auch die in der Biologie fundamentale Grenze zwischen Prokaryoten – Einzellern ohne Zellkern – und Eukaryoten – allen anderen Lebensformen inklusive Tiere und Pflanzen – und könnte damit ein Missing Link in der Evolution komplexen Lebens sein.
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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