foch
\voːχ\
The verdict
“foch” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,562. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #28,562
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forme mutée de moch par lénition.
Corpus desk
Index FR-foch · foch · French
foch · rank #28,562 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,562
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fleuris
Nearest frequency peer: fleuris (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « foch »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- figues
figues
71,442 corpus weight
- fleuris
fleuris
71,440 corpus weight
- foch
foch
71,439 corpus weight
- forages
forages
71,438 corpus weight
- Forrest
Forrest
71,437 corpus weight
- fournissait
fournissait
71,436 corpus weight
What this shows « foch » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | foch |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \voːχ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #28,562 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « foch »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around foch (IPA \voːχ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #28,562 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Forme mutée de moch par lénition.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for foch, with forms such as "fcoh", "ffoch", and "focch". 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, "fou", "foi", "for", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is foch, spelled F-O-C-H.
Definition
- 1Forme mutée de moch par lénition.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- fcoh
- ffoch
- focch
- fochh
- fohc
- ofch
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of foch - 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 "foch", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).