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foid

/ˈfɔɪd/noun

foid is a noun meaning “Clipping of feldspathoid” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-O-I-D, and it appears about once in every 37 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of foid is foids.

What does foid mean?

noun

  1. 1

    colloquialClipping of feldspathoid.

  2. 2

    derogatoryoffensiveClipping of femoid.

noun

as FOID
  1. 1

    USInitialism of Firearm Owner's Identification

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce foid?

  • /ˈfɔɪd/
  • /ˈɛfɔɪd/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of foid

  • foids plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is foid?

Foid appears about once in every 37 million words in written English, the 187,122nd most frequent word form in the list.

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