feet
\fiːt\
The verdict
“feet” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #43,431) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #43,431
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 3
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de foot.
Corpus desk
Index FR-feet · feet · French
feet · rank #43,431 · 3 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,431
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 3 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH Faustine
Nearest frequency peer: Faustine (-1 rank slots)
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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « feet »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- farouches
farouches
56,573 corpus weight
- fauche
fauche
56,572 corpus weight
- Faustine
Faustine
56,571 corpus weight
- feet
feet
56,570 corpus weight
- fenouil
fenouil
56,569 corpus weight
- ferrier
ferrier
56,568 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « feet » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | feet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fiːt\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #43,431 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « feet »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for feet is neighbouring look-alikes ("ft", "feu", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \fiːt\. Frequency #43,431 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Gloss: "Pluriel de foot.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for feet, with forms such as "feett", "fet", and "ffeet". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ft", "feu", "fer", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is feet, spelled F-E-E-T.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de foot.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how feet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I had just consummated an unusually hearty dinner, of which the dyspeptic truffe formed not the least important item, and was sitting alone in the dining-room, with my feet upon the fender, (The Angel of the Odd - Edgar Allan Poe)
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- feett
- fet
- ffeet
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of feet - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "feet", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).