foc
\fɔk\
The verdict
“foc” is uncommon French (frequency #63,000 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,000
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Voile triangulaire qui se place à l’avant du bateau et qui est utilisée par grand vent.
Corpus desk
Index FR-foc · foc · French
foc · rank #63,000 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,000
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH filous
Nearest frequency peer: filous (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « foc »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- feuilletant
feuilletant
37,004 corpus weight
- filmique
filmique
37,003 corpus weight
- filous
filous
37,002 corpus weight
- foc
foc
37,001 corpus weight
- focalisés
focalisés
37,000 corpus weight
- foisonnent
foisonnent
36,999 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « foc » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | foc |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɔk\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #63,000 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « foc » en français
Rare enough to double-check
foc is uncommon French at frequency #63,000 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fɔk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Voile triangulaire qui se place à l’avant du bateau et qui est utilisée par grand vent.".
No misspelling variants are generated for foc in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is foc, spelled F-O-C.
Definition
- 1Voile triangulaire qui se place à l’avant du bateau et qui est utilisée par grand vent.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how foc appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En même temps qu’aux bas et aux chaussures, j’avais renoncé aux jupes féminines, et Renaud pourrait dire de quel gentil mousse lui servait sa femme, en grand col bleu, en culotte de jersey et béret de laine, mousse vite au courant de la manœuvre des voiles, orgueilleux de border les écoutes de foc…
Je hisse mon premier foc et toute la voilure, c'est la première journée de beau temps depuis mon départ.
This word in other languages
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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