haut-fond
^((h aspiré))\o.fɔ̃\
The verdict
“haut-fond” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fond qui s’élève presque jusqu’à la surface de l’eau et dangereux pour la navigation.
Corpus desk
Index FR-haut-fond · haut-fond · French
haut-fond · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "H" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | haut-fond |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\o.fɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « haut-fond » en français
Rare enough to double-check
haut-fond is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed ^((h aspiré))\o.fɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Fond qui s’élève presque jusqu’à la surface de l’eau et dangereux pour la navigation.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for haut-fond, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is haut-fond, spelled H-A-U-T---F-O-N-D.
Definition
- 1Fond qui s’élève presque jusqu’à la surface de l’eau et dangereux pour la navigation.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.