foie
French, noun/fwa/
foie is spelled F-O-I-E (4 letters) and appears 14 times per million words in written French, the 5,025th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Foie is a French masculine noun meaning “liver” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Organe présent chez l’être humain et chez la plupart des vertébrés, produisant la bile. Il sert, entre…”.
What does foie mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineliver
- 2
masculineliver (as food)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. 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. 2. Cet organe, de certains animaux, cuisiné. 3. Peur.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of foie
- foies plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce foie?
- /fwa/
- \fwa\
- [fwa]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to foie
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is foie in French?
foie appears 14 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).