homme au foyer
\ɔ.m‿o fwa.je\
The verdict
“homme au foyer” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Homme, souvent père, qui n’a pas d’activité professionnelle, et qui est chargé de la gestion du foyer.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | homme au foyer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔ.m‿o fwa.je\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “homme au foyer” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
homme au foyer is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɔ.m‿o fwa.je\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Homme, souvent père, qui n’a pas d’activité professionnelle, et qui est chargé de la gestion du foyer.".
Zero misspellings are on record for homme au foyer in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is homme au foyer, spelled H-O-M-M-E- -A-U- -F-O-Y-E-R.
Definition
- 1Homme, souvent père, qui n’a pas d’activité professionnelle, et qui est chargé de la gestion du foyer.
This word in other languages
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.
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Using “homme au foyer”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is H-O-M-M-E- -A-U- -F-O-Y-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ɔ.m‿o fwa.je\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.