foire
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,869
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
foire is aFrenchnoun. It means: Fête populaire qui a lieu à certaines dates de l’année. Pronounced \fwaʁ\. It ranks #5,869 in French word frequency. Often confused with for and fois.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | foire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fwaʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #5,869 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for foire is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fwaʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,869 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for foire, with forms such as "ffoire", "fiore", and "foier". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "for", "fois", "fort", 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 foire, spelled F-O-I-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Fête populaire qui a lieu à certaines dates de l’année.
- 2Présent qu’on fait au temps d’une fête.
- 3Fête foraine, kermesse.
- 4Assemblée considérable et publique qui se tient en temps et lieu désignés d’avance, où les marchands peuvent étaler et vendre des objets de leur commerce.
- 5Lieu de grande activité commerciale.
- 6Marché spécialisé dans un type de marchandises.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ffoire,fiore,foier,foirre,forie,ofire
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for foire
Misspelling Variants of "foire"
Frequency rank: #5,869 in French
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