fo
\fɔ.ljo\
The verdict
“fo” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #9,484) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #9,484
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Folio.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fo · fo · French
fo · rank #9,484 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,484
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH filets
Nearest frequency peer: filets (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “fo”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- exposées
exposées
90,520 corpus weight
- fantaisie
fantaisie
90,519 corpus weight
- filets
filets
90,518 corpus weight
- fo
fo
90,517 corpus weight
- formellement
formellement
90,516 corpus weight
- gala
gala
90,515 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “fo” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | fo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɔ.ljo\ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #9,484 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “fo” se place dans la fréquence du français
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for fo is neighbouring look-alikes ("ft", "Fs", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \fɔ.ljo\. Frequency #9,484 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Gloss: "Folio.".
fo doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ft", "Fs", "FP", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is fo, spelled F-O.
Definition
- 1Folio.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce sont des chevaux aux fortes encolures et aux larges croupes³². Leurs crins (crinières et queues) sont soignés et tressés. L’artiste les a dessinés dans de belles attitudes : au pas (fᵒˢ 5 rᵒ, 7 rᵒ), cabrés (fᵒˢ 5 rᵒ, 6 rᵒ), trottant (fᵒˢ 6 rᵒ, 8 rᵒ), à l’arrêt (fᵒ 5 rᵒ).
Synonyms
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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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.