question de fond
The verdict
“question de fond” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 16
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Question importante.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | question de fond |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɛs.tjɔ̃ də fɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “question de fond” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for question de fond is 16 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɛs.tjɔ̃ də fɔ̃\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Question importante.".
No misspelling variants are generated for question de fond in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is question de fond, spelled Q-U-E-S-T-I-O-N- -D-E- -F-O-N-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Question importante.
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- The one correct French spelling is Q-U-E-S-T-I-O-N- -D-E- -F-O-N-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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