sans fond
\sɑ̃ fɔ̃\
The verdict
“sans fond” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. 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) - Sans limite ; sans fin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sans-fond · sans fond · French
sans fond · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" 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 | sans fond |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \sɑ̃ fɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
sans fond is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \sɑ̃ fɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sans fond appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quatre années de guerre n’avaient pas suffi, sa naïveté était encore quasiment sans fond.
Il se retrouvait, impuissant, à la verticale d’un abîme sans fond.
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.