foh
"foh" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“foh” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #49,923) as an interjection. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #49,923
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An exclamation of abhorrence or contempt.
Corpus desk
Index EN-foh · foh · English
foh · rank #49,923 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,923
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH flaked
Nearest frequency peer: flaked (-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.
Frequency neighbours of confusable “foh”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- Fenn
Fenn
50,082 corpus weight
- flail
flail
50,080 corpus weight
- flaked
flaked
50,079 corpus weight
- foh
foh
50,078 corpus weight
- FOMO
FOMO
50,077 corpus weight
- fondling
fondling
50,076 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “foh” against nearest ranked English headwords, not a reprint of the confusable-pair desk.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | foh |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #49,923 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “foh”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for foh is neighbouring look-alikes ("fu", "FS", …), not just typos; it is aninterjection. Frequency #49,923 among 2,507 “F” headwords. Gloss: "An exclamation of abhorrence or contempt.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for foh, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "fu", "FS", "FP", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: Compare faugh. The correct English form is foh, spelled F-O-H.
Definition
- 1An exclamation of abhorrence or contempt.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how foh appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Offence? As I'm a Perſon, I'm aſhamed of you—Fogh! how you ſtink of Wine! Dee think my Niece will ever endure ſuch a Borachio! you'r an abſolute Borachio.
"Foh!" said Madame Mantalini, "how he ever gets into a carriage without thinking of a hearse, I can't think. There, take the things away, my dear, take them away."
Etymology
Compare faugh.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).