foire

Name: foire, French Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

\fwaʁ\

/\fwaʁ\/ noun

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed September 3, 2026

The verdict

“foire” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,869. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#5,869
frequency rank, French: 3,276
“F” headwords: 6
tracked misspellings: 20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fête populaire qui a lieu à certaines dates de l’année.

Corpus desk

Index FR-foire · foire · French

foire · rank #5,869 · 6 variants · 20 confusables

FREQ-COMMON #5,869
LEN-MID 5 letters
VOW-3 3 vowels
CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
VAR-MID 6 variants
BOOK-MID 3,276
PHOTO-FINISH flammes

Nearest frequency peer: flammes (-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.

flammes

94,133
foire

94,132
fun

94,131
good

94,130
honnêtement

94,129
horaire

94,128

What this shows « foire » 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).

foire vs for

60% similar

foire vs fois

60% similar

foire vs fort

60% similar

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

Key facts for foire
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)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « foire »

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

#5,869

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « flammes » (#5,868), « fun » (#5,870), « good » (#5,871). Parmi 3,276 lemmes en « F », « foire » est au #5,869. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 6 spelling variants around foire (IPA \fwaʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,869 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for foire, with forms such as "ffoire", "fiore", and "foier". 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, "for", "fois", "fort", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is foire, spelled F-O-I-R-E.

Definition

1
Fête populaire qui a lieu à certaines dates de l’année.
2
Présent qu’on fait au temps d’une fête.
3
Fête foraine, kermesse.
4
Assemblée 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.
5
Lieu de grande activité commerciale.
6
Marché spécialisé dans un type de marchandises.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

La foire de Neuilly.
La foire du Trône.

Synonyms

foirail foiral fête foraine kermesse

This word in other languages

fair(English)feria(Español)Jahrmarkt(Deutsch)mercado(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

ffoire
fiore
foier
foirre
forie
ofire

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

Edit distance from "foire"

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 "foire"?

"foire" is spelled F-O-I-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \fwaʁ\.

What does "foire" mean?

As a noun, "foire" means: Fête populaire qui a lieu à certaines dates de l’année.

What words are commonly confused with "foire"?

"foire" is commonly confused with "for", "fois", "fort". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.

How do you pronounce "foire"?

The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "foire" is \fwaʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.

What language does "foire" come from?

"foire" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.

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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).

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