foraines
\fɔ.ʁɛn\
The verdict
“foraines” is uncommon French (frequency #57,277 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,277
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de forain.
Corpus desk
Index FR-foraines · foraines · French
foraines · rank #57,277 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,277
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH flanche
Nearest frequency peer: flanche (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « foraines »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fixette
fixette
42,727 corpus weight
- flags
flags
42,726 corpus weight
- flanche
flanche
42,725 corpus weight
- foraines
foraines
42,724 corpus weight
- forcerait
forcerait
42,723 corpus weight
- formalise
formalise
42,722 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « foraines » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | foraines |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fɔ.ʁɛn\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #57,277 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « foraines » en français
Rare enough to double-check
foraines is uncommon French at frequency #57,277 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \fɔ.ʁɛn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de forain.".
foraines doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is foraines, spelled F-O-R-A-I-N-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de forain.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how foraines appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Willy Ronis (1910-2009) aimait photographier la foule, les moments de rassemblement populaire autour d’une cause comme les ambiances festives dans les guinguettes des bords de Marne ou les attractions foraines.
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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