foo
\fu\
The verdict
“foo” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #43,447) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #43,447
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variable métasyntaxique en programmation informatique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-foo · foo · French
foo · rank #43,447 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,447
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH formatage
Nearest frequency peer: formatage (+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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « foo »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- flotteur
flotteur
56,558 corpus weight
- fléchettes
fléchettes
56,557 corpus weight
- fons
fons
56,556 corpus weight
- foo
foo
56,554 corpus weight
- formatage
formatage
56,553 corpus weight
- Frau
Frau
56,551 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « foo » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | foo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fu\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #43,447 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « foo »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for foo is neighbouring look-alikes ("ft", "Fs", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \fu\. Frequency #43,447 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Gloss: "Variable métasyntaxique en programmation informatique.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for foo, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ft", "Fs", "FP", 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is foo, spelled F-O-O.
Definition
- 1Variable métasyntaxique en programmation informatique.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).