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infondé

French, adjective/ɛ̃.fɔ̃.de/

infondé is a French adjective meaning “unfounded, baseless, groundless” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Sans fondement, qui ne repose sur rien”.

What does infondé mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    unfounded, baseless, groundless

    La rumeur qu'il était mort se révéla infondée.

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. Sans fondement, qui ne repose sur rien.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of infondé

  • infondée feminine
  • infondés masculine plural
  • infondées feminine plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce infondé?

  • /ɛ̃.fɔ̃.de/
  • \ɛ̃.fɔ̃.de\
  • [ɛ̃.fɔ̃.de]

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to infondé

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is infondé in French?

infondé appears about once in every 5 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).