fox
\fɔks\
The verdict
“fox” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #7,832) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #7,832
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Race de chien, abréviation de fox-terrier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fox · fox · French
fox · rank #7,832 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,832
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fournis
Nearest frequency peer: fournis (-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 « fox »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- fondre
fondre
92,172 corpus weight
- foudre
foudre
92,171 corpus weight
- fournis
fournis
92,170 corpus weight
- fox
fox
92,169 corpus weight
- Francfort
Francfort
92,168 corpus weight
- games
games
92,167 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « fox » 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 | fox |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɔks\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #7,832 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « fox »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for fox is neighbouring look-alikes ("ft", "Fs", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \fɔks\. Frequency #7,832 among 3,276 “F” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
fox has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ft", "Fs", "FP", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is fox, spelled F-O-X.
Definition
- 1Race de chien, abréviation de fox-terrier.
- 2Goût exagéré de cassis qu’ont certains raisins ou certains vins.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fox appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À midi et demi, le petit Ménétreau, galopin d’école l’an dernier, promu récemment saute-ruisseau chez Defert, s’asseyait à côté de Voussard, et finissait son pain du déjeuner à grands coups de dents, comme un fox qui déchire une pantoufle.
Le comportement des animaux aurait pu m’éclairer : j’avais vu Criquette, la petite fox de Magdeleine, collée à un grand chien-loup et Magdeleine en larmes essayait de les séparer.
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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