fox-trot
\fɔks.tʁɔt\
The verdict
“fox-trot” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Danse de salon, à quatre temps, apparue au début du xxᵉ au USA dans la population noire. Il ressemble à la valse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fox-trot · fox-trot · French
fox-trot · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 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 | fox-trot |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɔks.tʁɔt\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fox-trot » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fox-trot is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \fɔks.tʁɔt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Danse de salon, à quatre temps, apparue au début du xxᵉ au USA dans la population noire. Il ressemble à la valse.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for fox-trot, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is fox-trot, spelled F-O-X---T-R-O-T.
Definition
- 1Danse de salon, à quatre temps, apparue au début du xxᵉ au USA dans la population noire. Il ressemble à la valse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fox-trot appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le torve wahhabite dansait le fox-trot au pied de la ziggourat.
On disait que c’était un « genre bas », que les blues étaient sirupeux et les fox-trots criards et qu’il fallait se méfier de cette barbarie moderne…
Synonyms
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.