foamy
/ˈfəʊmi/
"foamy" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“foamy” is uncommon English (frequency #58,702 among 2,507 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,702
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Full of foam.
Corpus desk
Index EN-foamy · foamy · English
foamy · rank #58,702 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,702
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH forevermore
Nearest frequency peer: forevermore (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “foamy”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- flayed
flayed
41,304 corpus weight
- fleeced
fleeced
41,303 corpus weight
- foamy
foamy
41,299 corpus weight
- forevermore
forevermore
41,298 corpus weight
- foundling
foundling
41,297 corpus weight
- freemium
freemium
41,294 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “foamy” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | foamy |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈfəʊmi/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #58,702 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “foamy” in English
Rare enough to double-check
foamy is uncommon English at frequency #58,702 among 2,507 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ˈfəʊmi/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Full of foam.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for foamy, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English fomy, from Old English fāmiġ, fǣmiġ (“frothy, foamy”), from Proto-West Germanic *faimag, *faimīg, equivalent to foam + -y. The correct English form is foamy, spelled F-O-A-M-Y.
Definition
- 1Full of foam.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how foamy appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
He jumped overboard into the foamy waters of the Atlantic Ocean.
Tlepolemus, the sun of Hercules, / Led nine swift vessels through the foamy seas
Etymology
From Middle English fomy, from Old English fāmiġ, fǣmiġ (“frothy, foamy”), from Proto-West Germanic *faimag, *faimīg, equivalent to foam + -y.
Synonyms
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); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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