foxtrot
\ˈfɔkstrɔt\
The verdict
“foxtrot” is uncommon French (frequency #75,702 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,702
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (radiotéléphonie) Mot de code radiotéléphonique de l'OACI, OTAN et SIA pour la lettre latine F.
Corpus desk
Index FR-foxtrot · foxtrot · French
foxtrot · rank #75,702 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,702
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fourguer
Nearest frequency peer: fourguer (-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 « foxtrot »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fonceur
fonceur
24,302 corpus weight
- fondaient
fondaient
24,301 corpus weight
- fourguer
fourguer
24,300 corpus weight
- foxtrot
foxtrot
24,299 corpus weight
- fragilisent
fragilisent
24,298 corpus weight
- fragmenter
fragmenter
24,297 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « foxtrot » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | foxtrot |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈfɔkstrɔt\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #75,702 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « foxtrot » en français
Rare enough to double-check
foxtrot is uncommon French at frequency #75,702 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈfɔkstrɔt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for foxtrot in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is foxtrot, spelled F-O-X-T-R-O-T.
Definition
- 1(radiotéléphonie) Mot de code radiotéléphonique de l'OACI, OTAN et SIA pour la lettre latine F.
- 2Pavillon du code international des signaux maritimes correspondant à la lettre F.
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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