fois

noun

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The verdict

“fois” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #99,784 among 853 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#99,784
frequency rank, Portuguese
853
“F” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - vez

Corpus desk

Index PT-fois · fois · Portuguese

fois · rank #99,784 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #99,784
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 853
  • PHOTO-FINISH Garten

Nearest frequency peer: Garten (+19 rank slots)

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.

Ranks da cauda longa perto de “fois”

Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto

corpus weight

What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “fois” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for fois
PropertyValue
Headwordfois
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters4
Frequency rank#99,784
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Cauda longa: rank de “fois” em português

Da esquerda para a direita: o pouco que carrega a fala diária, depois a cauda longa quase invisível.foiscai nesta cauda de raridade:

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

Os ticks avançam em logaritmo; cada um é da ordem de dez vezes mais raro. Vizinhos raros da mesma faixa: “Garten” (#99,803), “gauge” (#99,805), “facultar” (#99,760). Entre 853 lemas com “F”, “fois” fica em #99,784. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

fois is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #99,784 among 853 “F” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "vez".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for fois, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is fois, spelled F-O-I-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    vez

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how fois appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Elle s’est dit: "Ma foi, c’est la dernière fois que je vends du foie dans la ville de Foix."
  2. Combien de fois êtes vous allé à Paris? - Six ou sept fois,... attendez, je ne sais pas - plusieurs fois.

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 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "fois"?
"fois" is spelled F-O-I-S.
What does "fois" mean?
As a noun, "fois" means: vez
What language does "fois" come from?
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "fois", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Ende#99,713Laus#99,949bunt#99,518turo#99,322

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list