Fos
The verdict
“Fos” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #33,268) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #33,268
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département de la Haute-Garonne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fos · Fos · French
Fos · rank #33,268 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,268
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH formulations
Nearest frequency peer: formulations (-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 « Fos »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- flottent
flottent
66,736 corpus weight
- flottille
flottille
66,735 corpus weight
- formulations
formulations
66,734 corpus weight
- Fos
Fos
66,733 corpus weight
- fourchettes
fourchettes
66,732 corpus weight
- fraisse
fraisse
66,731 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « Fos » 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 | Fos |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #33,268 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « Fos »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Fos is neighbouring look-alikes ("ft", "Fs", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun. Frequency #33,268 among 3,276 “F” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Fos, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. 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 documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Fos, spelled F-O-S.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département de la Haute-Garonne.
- 2Commune française, située dans le département de l’Hérault.
- 3Nom abrégé du nom de la commune française de Fos-sur-Mer, située dans le département des Bouches-du-Rhône.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Fos appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Fos est sur la mer, au bord du golfe du même nom et au bout d’une autre route qui traverse la grande Crau et longe de mélancoliques paluds : Fos est un petit morceau de ville d’Ys.
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 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).