foyer

/\fwa.je\/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#3,260

in French word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

foyer is aFrenchnoun. It means: (Selon certains auteurs) Partie d’une cheminée se trouvant au devant de l’âtre (on brûle le bois), Il se trouve donc en dehors des jambages de la cheminée. Il est souvent constitué de pierres ou de... Pronounced \fwa.je\. It ranks #3,260 in French word frequency. Often confused with fumer and fuyez.

Key facts for foyer
PropertyValue
Headwordfoyer
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\fwa.je\
Letters5
Frequency rank#3,260
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of foyer in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for foyer is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fwa.je\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,260 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 16 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for foyer, with forms such as "ffoyer", "foeyr", and "foyerr". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "fumer", "fuyez", "foyers", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is foyer, spelled F-O-Y-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    (Selon certains auteurs) Partie d’une cheminée se trouvant au devant de l’âtre (on brûle le bois), Il se trouve donc en dehors des jambages de la cheminée. Il est souvent constitué de pierres ou de briques si le sol de la pièce est en parquet.
  2. 2
    (Selon d’autres auteurs) Synonyme d’âtre.
  3. 3
    Partie d’un poêle, d’un fourneau où se fait le feu.
  4. 4
    Partie d’un poêle, d’un fourneau où se fait le feu.
  5. 5
    Feu qui brûle dans le foyer.
  6. 6
    Salle commune d’un théâtre, d’une salle de spectacle, où se rassemblent les acteurs et celle où les spectateurs peuvent se rendre pour passer le temps des entractes, pour converser et où ils se rendaient autrefois pour se chauffer.
  7. 7
    Maison, demeure familiale, pays natal.
  8. 8
    Centre, source.
  9. 9
    Point possédant des propriétés particulières pour l’étude de certaines courbes.
  10. 10
    Point commun à tous les rayons sortant d’un système optique lorsque tous les rayons entrants sont parallèles à l’axe optique du système.
  11. 11
    Siège principal d’une maladie.
  12. 12
    Se dit d’un lieu d’où rayonne, un problème ou un danger.
  13. 13
    Centre ; lieu principal.
  14. 14
    Salle, dans un lycée, où les élèves peuvent se détendre ; un même type de salle pour les enseignants.
  15. 15
    Focus.
  16. 16
    Résidence pour personnes âgées.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ffoyer,foeyr,foyerr,foyre,foyyer,fyoer,ofyer

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for foyer

Misspelling Variants of "foyer"

ffoyer6foeyr5foyerr6foyre5foyyer6fyoer5ofyer5
Misspelling Variants of "foyer"

Frequency rank: #3,260 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "foyer"?
"foyer" is spelled F-O-Y-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \fwa.je\.
What does "foyer" mean?
As a noun, "foyer" means: (Selon certains auteurs) Partie d’une cheminée se trouvant au devant de l’âtre (on brûle le bois), Il se trouve donc en dehors des jambages de la cheminée. Il est souvent constitué de pierres ou de...
What words are commonly confused with "foyer"?
"foyer" is commonly confused with "fumer", "fuyez", "foyers". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "foyer"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "foyer" is \fwa.je\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "foyer" come from?
"foyer" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Yes, PlainSpell is a completely free word reference. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, confusable pairs, homophones, and spelling corrections across 5 languages without any sign-up or subscription.

Nearby French words

Other entries that begin with the letter F in our French index:

Explore PlainSpell

Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.