foires
\fwaʁ\
The verdict
“foires” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,134. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,134
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de foire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-foires · foires · French
foires · rank #16,134 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,134
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH flandres
Nearest frequency peer: flandres (-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 « foires »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- figurines
figurines
83,870 corpus weight
- flancs
flancs
83,869 corpus weight
- flandres
flandres
83,868 corpus weight
- foires
foires
83,867 corpus weight
- fonctionnait
fonctionnait
83,866 corpus weight
- forcement
forcement
83,865 corpus weight
What this shows « foires » 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 | foires |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fwaʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #16,134 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « foires »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around foires (IPA \fwaʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,134 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de foire.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for foires, with forms such as "ffoires", "fiores", and "foiers". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "fois", "forêt", "forts", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is foires, spelled F-O-I-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de foire.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffoires
- fiores
- foiers
- foiress
- foirres
- foirse
- fories
- ofires
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of foires - 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.
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).