foreigner
\ˈfɔɹ.ə.nɚ\
The verdict
“foreigner” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Étranger, étrangère.
Corpus desk
Index FR-foreigner · foreigner · French
foreigner · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "F" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | foreigner |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈfɔɹ.ə.nɚ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
foreigner is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈfɔɹ.ə.nɚ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Étranger, étrangère.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for foreigner, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is foreigner, spelled F-O-R-E-I-G-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1Étranger, étrangère.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.