musique de fond
\my.zik də fɔ̃\
The verdict
“musique de 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
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Genre musical qui n’est pas destinée à une écoute attentive mais à combler le silence.
Corpus desk
Index FR-musique-de-fond · musique de fond · French
musique de fond · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" 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 | musique de fond |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \my.zik də fɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « musique de fond » en français
Rare enough to double-check
musique de fond is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \my.zik də fɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Genre musical qui n’est pas destinée à une écoute attentive mais à combler le silence.".
musique de fond doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is musique de fond, spelled M-U-S-I-Q-U-E- -D-E- -F-O-N-D.
Definition
- 1Genre musical qui n’est pas destinée à une écoute attentive mais à combler le silence.
Synonyms
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.