FOY

Definitions: FOY

FOY

Noun

1. A feast given by one about to leave a place.

2. Faith; allegiance; fealty.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "FOY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references)

Etymology: Foy \Foy\, noun. [French expression foi, old spelling foy, faith. See Faith.]. (Websters 1913)

Modern Usage: FOY

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Foy Meets Girl (1950)
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Commercial Usage: FOY

Domain	Title
Books	Multiphoton Processes: Proceedings of the International Conference Universite Laval, Ste. Foy, Quebec, Canada 25-30 June 1993 (Optics and Photonics,) (reference) The Book of Sainte Foy (University of Pennsylvania Press Middle Ages Series) (reference) Writing Faith: Text, Sign, and History in the Miracles of Sainte Foy (reference) (more book examples)
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Use in Literature: FOY

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	It employs Wellington to make Foy, who was only a soldier, an orator.
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Usage Frequency: FOY

"FOY" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 91.67% of the time. "FOY" is used about 12 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (proper)	91.67%	11	106,044
Noun (singular)	8.33%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	12	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: FOY

The following table summarizes the usage of "FOY" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Foy	Last name	4,000	2,894
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: FOY

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
foy	24	foy ste toyota	6
cegep foy ste	23	business fountain foy interface youth	5
hotel ste foy	22	foy insurance	5
sainte foy	18	ste foy quebec	5
ste foy	18	gouverneur hotel sainte foy	5
sainte foy canada	17	sainte foy hotel	4
hotel ste foy quebec	15	foy saint	4
foy laura	15	st foy hotel	4
foy place ste	12	motel ste foy	4
foy ste sympatico	11	david foy	4
farmaceutische foy machine pharmaceutical tablet	10	canada foy,quebec hotel plaza sainte	4
campus notre dame de foy	10	sainte foy quebec	4
cegep de foy ste	9	george foy	4
cegep de foy sainte	8	cegep foy st	3
eddie foy	8	de entreprises foy st	3
de foy ste ville	7	cathy foy	3
auberge foy ste	7	by flying foy	3
cegep foy sainte	7	foy place sainte	3
cégep foy ste	7	cégep de foy ste	3
foy st	6	cégep de foy sainte	3
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Derivations: FOY

Derivations
	Words beginning with "FOY": foyer, foyers, foys. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "FOY"

Words ending with "oy": Cloy, Loy, Poy, soy, Stroy, troy. (additional references)

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Anagrams: FOY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "f-o-y"
	-1 letter: of, oy, yo.
	Words containing the letters "f-o-y"
	+1 letter: fogy, foxy, foys, fozy, ofay.
	+2 letters: comfy, foamy, fogey, foggy, folky, folly, footy, foray, forby, forky, forty, foyer, goofy, lofty, ofays, poofy, softy, toffy.
	+3 letters: botfly, codify, felony, floaty, flocky, flooey, floosy, floozy, floppy, flossy, floury, flyboy, flyoff, fogeys, folksy, fondly, footsy, forays, forbye, foreby, formyl, forwhy, foully, foxily, foyers, froggy, frosty, frothy, frouzy, frowsy, frowzy, fylfot, joyful, layoff, modify, notify, offkey, orfray, ossify, outfly, payoff, softly, spoofy.
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