foies
\fwa\
The verdict
“foies” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #47,901. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #47,901
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de foie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-foies · foies · French
foies · rank #47,901 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,901
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH flatterie
Nearest frequency peer: flatterie (-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 « foies »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Fink
Fink
52,103 corpus weight
- fiotte
fiotte
52,102 corpus weight
- flatterie
flatterie
52,101 corpus weight
- foies
foies
52,100 corpus weight
- fossettes
fossettes
52,099 corpus weight
- foudroyé
foudroyé
52,098 corpus weight
What this shows « foies » 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 | foies |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fwa\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #47,901 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « foies »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around foies (IPA \fwa\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #47,901 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de foie.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for foies, with forms such as "ffoies", "fioes", and "foeis". 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, "Fos", "fois", "fous", 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 is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is foies, spelled F-O-I-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de foie.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffoies
- fioes
- foeis
- foiess
- foise
- ofies
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of foies - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).