foreman
\fɔʁ.man\
The verdict
“foreman” is uncommon French (frequency #50,836 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,836
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Contre-maître d'un chantier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-foreman · foreman · French
foreman · rank #50,836 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,836
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fondamentalis…
Nearest frequency peer: fondamentaliste (-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 « foreman »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- flatteurs
flatteurs
49,168 corpus weight
- folioles
folioles
49,167 corpus weight
- fondamental…
fondamentaliste
49,166 corpus weight
- foreman
foreman
49,165 corpus weight
- formaldéhyde
formaldéhyde
49,164 corpus weight
- fortuna
fortuna
49,163 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « foreman » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | foreman |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɔʁ.man\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #50,836 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « foreman » en français
Rare enough to double-check
foreman is uncommon French at frequency #50,836 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fɔʁ.man\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Contre-maître d'un chantier.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for foreman in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is foreman, spelled F-O-R-E-M-A-N.
Definition
- 1Contre-maître d'un chantier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how foreman appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— Et qui va être un « foreman » à trois piastres par jour ? C’est le bonhomme Laliberté…
Mais le foreman qu’est un gros boulé […] y a ben manqué de m’estropier […] parce que je savais pas travailler.
Synonyms
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).