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 September 3, 2026) - Homme, souvent père, qui n’a pas d’activité professionnelle, et qui est chargé de la gestion du foyer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-homme-au-foyer · homme au foyer · French
homme au foyer · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "H" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « homme au foyer » en français
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how homme au foyer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La situation d’homme au foyer était devenue une mode à la fin des années soixante-dix, acceptée en théorie mais choquante dès qu’il s’agissait du voisin.
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.