foi
"foi" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“foi” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #42,644) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #42,644
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A depiction of a handshake.
Corpus desk
Index EN-foi · foi · English
foi · rank #42,644 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,644
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH fMRI
Nearest frequency peer: fMRI (-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 “foi”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- fete
fete
57,362 corpus weight
- fMRI
fMRI
57,358 corpus weight
- foi
foi
57,357 corpus weight
- foie
foie
57,356 corpus weight
- formalism
formalism
57,354 corpus weight
- fortuitous
fortuitous
57,353 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “foi” 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 | foi |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #42,644 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “foi”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for foi is neighbouring look-alikes ("fu", "FS", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #42,644 among 2,507 “F” headwords. Gloss: "A depiction of a handshake.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for foi in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "fu", "FS", "FP", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from French foi. The correct English form is foi, spelled F-O-I.
Definition
- 1A depiction of a handshake.
Etymology
Borrowed from French foi.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "foi", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).