femme au foyer
\fa.m‿o fwa.je\
The verdict
“femme au foyer” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Femme, souvent mère, qui n’a pas d’activité professionnelle, et est chargée de la gestion du foyer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-femme-au-foyer · femme au foyer · French
femme au foyer · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "F" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | femme au foyer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fa.m‿o fwa.je\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
femme au foyer is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \fa.m‿o fwa.je\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Femme, souvent mère, qui n’a pas d’activité professionnelle, et est chargée de la gestion du foyer.".
No misspelling variants are generated for femme au foyer in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is femme au foyer, spelled F-E-M-M-E- -A-U- -F-O-Y-E-R.
Definition
- 1Femme, souvent mère, qui n’a pas d’activité professionnelle, et est chargée de la gestion du foyer.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.