foye
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | foye |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #89,732 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “foye” sits in French frequency
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
- 1Variante 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.
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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.
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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.