sans fond
\sɑ̃ fɔ̃\
The verdict
“sans fond” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an adjective - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Sans limite ; sans fin.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sans fond |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \sɑ̃ fɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “sans fond” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for sans fond is 9 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɑ̃ 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: "Sans limite ; sans fin.".
sans fond doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable 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. The correct French form is sans fond, spelled S-A-N-S- -F-O-N-D.
Definition
- 1Sans limite ; sans fin.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “sans fond”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is S-A-N-S- -F-O-N-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.