Foix
\fwa\
The verdict
“Foix” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,271. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,271
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune et chef-lieu de département français, située dans le département de l’Ariège.
Corpus desk
Index FR-foix · Foix · French
Foix · rank #22,271 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,271
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fluo
Nearest frequency peer: fluo (-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 « Foix »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- flag
flag
77,733 corpus weight
- flair
flair
77,732 corpus weight
- fluo
fluo
77,731 corpus weight
- Foix
Foix
77,730 corpus weight
- formaient
formaient
77,729 corpus weight
- fougères
fougères
77,728 corpus weight
What this shows « Foix » 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 | Foix |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \fwa\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #22,271 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Foix »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around Foix (IPA \fwa\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #22,271 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 Foix, with forms such as "ffoix", "fiox", and "foixx". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "fou", "for", "fox", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Foix, spelled F-O-I-X.
Definition
- 1Commune et chef-lieu de département français, située dans le département de l’Ariège.
- 2Canton français, situé dans le département de l’Ariège.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Foix appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Hier après-midi, une collision frontale entre deux véhicules en Ariège, au niveau de Savignac-les-Ormeaux, près d’Ax-les-Thermes, sur la RN20, une route très fréquentée reliant Toulouse à l’Andorre, a fait six morts, dont deux enfants, et plusieurs blessés, a-t-on appris auprès du parquet de Foix.
Sous le soleil du petit bourg de Loubens, à vingt-cinq minutes de Foix (Ariège), Carole Delga arpente un maraîchage bio et s’amuse à tester l’un de ses adjoints sur les différentes variétés de salades.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffoix
- fiox
- foixx
- foxi
- ofix
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Foix - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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).