foye

noun

The verdict

“foye” is uncommon French (frequency #89,732 among 137,178 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#89,732
frequency rank, French
137,178
“F” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Variante de foie.

Key facts for foye
PropertyValue
Headwordfoye
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
Letters4
Frequency rank#89,732
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “foye” sits in French frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). foye lands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

foye is uncommon French at frequency #89,732 among 137,178 “F” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante de foie.".

foye doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 foye, spelled F-O-Y-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Variante de foie.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "foye"?
"foye" is spelled F-O-Y-E.
What does "foye" mean?
As a noun, "foye" means: Variante de foie.
What language does "foye" come from?
"foye" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Using “foye”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is F-O-Y-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words

Other uncommon French words near this rank

Data Source

Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list