infondé
\ɛ̃.fɔ̃.de\
The verdict
“infondé” is uncommon French (frequency #76,683 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,683
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sans fondement, qui ne repose sur rien.
Corpus desk
Index FR-infonde · infondé · French
infondé · rank #76,683 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,683
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH inductance
Nearest frequency peer: inductance (-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 « infondé »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- incorporell…
incorporelles
23,321 corpus weight
- indemnise
indemnise
23,320 corpus weight
- inductance
inductance
23,319 corpus weight
- infondé
infondé
23,318 corpus weight
- inhabitables
inhabitables
23,316 corpus weight
- inopérante
inopérante
23,315 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « infondé » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | infondé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.fɔ̃.de\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #76,683 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « infondé » en français
Rare enough to double-check
infondé is uncommon French at frequency #76,683 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɛ̃.fɔ̃.de\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Sans fondement, qui ne repose sur rien.".
infondé has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is infondé, spelled I-N-F-O-N-D-É.
Definition
- 1Sans fondement, qui ne repose sur rien.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how infondé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La rumeur qu’il était mort se révéla infondée.
Mais, moi, j’avais vu la vache bleue. Je l’ai défendue, mais personne ne m’a crue non plus. Tout le monde m’a accusée de dire des choses infondées.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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