foamy
/ˈfəʊmi/
"foamy" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“foamy” is an uncommon English word, ranked #58,702 in English word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #58,702
- frequency rank, English
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Full of foam.
| 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) |
Where “foamy” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for foamy is 5 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈfəʊmi/. Corpus data places it at rank #58,702 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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.
Etymology
From Middle English fomy, from Old English fāmiġ, fǣmiġ (“frothy, foamy”), from Proto-West Germanic *faimag, *faimīg, equivalent to foam + -y.
Synonyms
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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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Using “foamy”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is F-O-A-M-Y - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈfəʊmi/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.