funding
\ˈfʌn.dɪŋ\
The verdict
“funding” is uncommon French (frequency #82,974 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,974
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Financement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-funding · funding · French
funding · rank #82,974 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,974
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fumage
Nearest frequency peer: fumage (-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 « funding »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- frot
frot
17,030 corpus weight
- frôlait
frôlait
17,029 corpus weight
- fumage
fumage
17,028 corpus weight
- funding
funding
17,027 corpus weight
- FZ
FZ
17,026 corpus weight
- féminismes
féminismes
17,025 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « funding » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | funding |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈfʌn.dɪŋ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #82,974 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « funding » en français
Rare enough to double-check
funding is uncommon French at frequency #82,974 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈfʌn.dɪŋ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Financement.".
Zero misspellings are on record for funding in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is funding, spelled F-U-N-D-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Financement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how funding appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
For the preceding 2014-2020 period we estimated that the EU funding through the European Regional and Development Fund, the Cohesion Fund, and the Connecting Europe Facility for projects that contributed to road safety stood at around € 6.6 billion.
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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