foie
\fwa\
The verdict
“foie” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #5,041) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #5,041
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Organe présent chez l’être humain et chez la plupart des vertébrés, produisant la bile. Il sert, entre autres, à régler le métabolisme des glucides.
Corpus desk
Index FR-foie · foie · French
foie · rank #5,041 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,041
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fiscal
Nearest frequency peer: fiscal (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « foie »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- facilité
facilité
94,963 corpus weight
- finis
finis
94,962 corpus weight
- fiscal
fiscal
94,961 corpus weight
- foie
foie
94,960 corpus weight
- Gaulle
Gaulle
94,959 corpus weight
- ignorer
ignorer
94,958 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « foie » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | foie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fwa\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #5,041 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « foie »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for foie is neighbouring look-alikes ("fou", "for", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \fwa\. Frequency #5,041 among 3,276 “F” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for foie, with forms such as "ffoie", "fioe", and "foei". 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", "for", "fox", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is foie, spelled F-O-I-E.
Definition
- 1Organe présent chez l’être humain et chez la plupart des vertébrés, produisant la bile. Il sert, entre autres, à régler le métabolisme des glucides.
- 2Cet organe, de certains animaux, cuisiné.
- 3Peur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how foie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Indépendamment d'artères et de veines correspondantes aux artères et aux veines des autres parties du corps, le foie est l'aboutissant d'un système veineux particulier, le système de la veine-porte, qui se distribue , dans son épaisseur, à la manière des vaisseaux artériels. — (Jean Cruveilhier, Traité d'anatomie descriptive, Paris : P. Asselin, 1871, vol…
Il y avait un troisième ennemi du peuple, et qui n'était point dans le passé : c'était l'Alcool. De cette époque datent « L’Assommoir », et ces tableaux effrayants qui tapissaient les murs des classes. On y voyait des foies rougeâtres et si parfaitement méconnaissables (à cause de leurs boursouflures vertes et de leurs étranglements violacés qui leur donn…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffoie
- fioe
- foei
- ofie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of foie - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).