foire à tout
\fwa.ʁ‿a tu\
The verdict
“foire à tout” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vide-greniers.
Corpus desk
Index FR-foire-a-tout · foire à tout · French
foire à tout · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "F" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | foire à tout |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fwa.ʁ‿a tu\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « foire à tout » en français
Rare enough to double-check
foire à tout is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \fwa.ʁ‿a tu\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Vide-greniers.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for foire à tout, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is foire à tout, spelled F-O-I-R-E- -À- -T-O-U-T.
Definition
- 1Vide-greniers.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how foire à tout appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La dénomination de nombreuses braderies et « foires à tout » joue la carte de la transparence : on sait qu'on trouvera, sortis des greniers, plus d'objets de peu de valeur et de nanars que de meubles de style et autres antiquités de prestige […].,
Ma collection, je l'ai bâtie au fil des années, des semaines et plus particulièrement des week-ends. Enfin, surtout des dimanches matin. Chaque semaine, de mars à octobre, nos villages de France organisent une multitude de vide-greniers, bric-à-brac, brocantes et autres foires à tout.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.