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fogbound

adjective

fogbound is an adjective meaning “enveloped in fog to such an extent that movement is dangerous or impossible” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-O-G-B-O-U-N-D, and it appears about once in every 71 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does fogbound mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    enveloped in fog to such an extent that movement is dangerous or impossible

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of fogbound

  • more fogbound comparative
  • most fogbound superlative

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is fogbound?

Fogbound appears about once in every 71 million words in written English, the 265,644th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does fogbound come from?

From fog + -bound.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).