fois
\fwa\
The verdict
“fois” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #104. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #104
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom qui se joint à un adjectif numéral pour indiquer qu’un fait s’est produit ou s’est répété.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fois · fois · French
fois · rank #104 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #104
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH te
Nearest frequency peer: te (-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 « fois »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- dire
dire
99,900 corpus weight
- monde
monde
99,899 corpus weight
- te
te
99,898 corpus weight
- fois
fois
99,897 corpus weight
- faut
faut
99,896 corpus weight
- toujours
toujours
99,895 corpus weight
What this shows « fois » 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 | fois |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fwa\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #104 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « fois »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around fois (IPA \fwa\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #104 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for fois, with forms such as "ffois", "fios", and "foiss". 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, "Fs", "fou", "for", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is fois, spelled F-O-I-S.
Definition
- 1Nom qui se joint à un adjectif numéral pour indiquer qu’un fait s’est produit ou s’est répété.
- 2Quantité, nombre que l’on augmente, que l’on diminue ou que l’on compare à d’autres.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fois appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le Gouvernement a renouvelé pour la dixième fois, en 1865, le grand concours biennal de composition musicale, institué par l'arrêté royal du 19 septembre 1840.
Le secours allait venir aux révisionnistes du côté où on l'attendait le moins. Une pièce du dossier secret, deux fois rendue publique, se trouva être un faux.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffois
- fios
- foiss
- fosi
- ofis
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fois - 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.
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 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).