foi
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,478
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
foi is aFrenchnoun. It means: Croyance aux dogmes de la religion, en Dieu. Pronounced \fwa\. It ranks #1,478 in French word frequency. Often confused with ft and Fs.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | foi |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fwa\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #1,478 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for foi is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fwa\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,478 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for foi in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ft", "Fs", "FP", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is foi, spelled F-O-I, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Croyance aux dogmes de la religion, en Dieu.
- 2Objet de la foi ; dogmes qu’une religion propose à croire comme révélés de Dieu.
- 3Cette religion même.
- 4Fidélité, exactitude à tenir sa parole, à remplir ses promesses, ses engagements ; ou assurance donnée de garder sa parole, sa promesse.
- 5L’obligation que l’on contracte ; l’assurance que l’on donne de quelque chose par les traités, par les serments, etc.
- 6Croyance ; confiance.
- 7Témoignage ; assurance ; preuve.
- 8salutation ; symbole héraldique formé par une salutation par une poignée de main.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #1,478 in French
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