foin

\fwɛ̃\

/\fwɛ̃\/ noun

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The verdict

“foin” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #13,388) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#13,388
frequency rank, French
3,276
“F” headwords
4
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Herbe fauchée et séchée qui sert principalement à la nourriture des chevaux et des bestiaux.

Corpus desk

Index FR-foin · foin · French

foin · rank #13,388 · 4 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #13,388
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-LOW 4 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,276
  • PHOTO-FINISH fièrement

Nearest frequency peer: fièrement (-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 « foin »

Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous

corpus weight

What this shows Les barres placent « foin » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

foin vs fou
50% similar
foin vs for
50% similar
foin vs fun
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for foin
PropertyValue
Headwordfoin
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\fwɛ̃\
Letters4
Frequency rank#13,388
Misspellings tracked4
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rang de corpus près des confusables de « foin »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).foinse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « fièrement » (#13,387), « forge » (#13,389), « finition » (#13,386). Parmi 3,276 lemmes en « F », « foin » est au #13,388. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for foin is neighbouring look-alikes ("fou", "for", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \fwɛ̃\. Frequency #13,388 among 3,276 “F” headwords. 5 recorded senses keep meaning in play.

Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for foin, with forms such as "ffoin", "foinn", and "foni". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "fou", "for", "fun", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is foin, spelled F-O-I-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    Herbe fauchée et séchée qui sert principalement à la nourriture des chevaux et des bestiaux.
  2. 2
    Herbe sèche avant qu’elle soit fauchée.
  3. 3
    Ensemble des fleurons tubulaires du capitule (fond) immature de l’artichaut.
  4. 4
    Fenaison.
  5. 5
    Argent.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how foin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Ici je ne vis que des hommes fort occupés de chevaux, de foin, et des autres genres de ravitaillement ; tout cela exactement fait, et sous la pression de cette continuelle peur.
  2. Moi aussi, les soirs trop chauds m’ont terrassée ; moi aussi, l’odeur musquée des foins, les roulades du rossignol m’ont livré à la folie, à la faute.

Synonyms

blé

This word in other languages

hay(English)heno(Español)Heu(Deutsch)feno(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ffoin
  • foinn
  • foni
  • ofin

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of foin - 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.

ffoin1foinn1foni2ofin2
Edit distance from "foin"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "foin"?
"foin" is spelled F-O-I-N. The IPA pronunciation is \fwɛ̃\.
What does "foin" mean?
As a noun, "foin" means: Herbe fauchée et séchée qui sert principalement à la nourriture des chevaux et des bestiaux.
What words are commonly confused with "foin"?
"foin" is commonly confused with "fou", "for", "fun". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "foin"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "foin" is \fwɛ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "foin" come from?
"foin" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "foin", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

iron#13,412jong#13,414cook#13,346abat#13,305

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list