foisted
/ˈfɔɪstɪd/
"foisted" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“foisted” is uncommon English (frequency #68,223 among 2,507 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,223
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of foist
Corpus desk
Index EN-foisted · foisted · English
foisted · rank #68,223 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,223
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH Fok
Nearest frequency peer: Fok (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “foisted”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- finna
finna
31,783 corpus weight
- finned
finned
31,782 corpus weight
- foisted
foisted
31,778 corpus weight
- Fok
Fok
31,777 corpus weight
- foll
foll
31,776 corpus weight
- fount
fount
31,773 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “foisted” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | foisted |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈfɔɪstɪd/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #68,223 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “foisted” in English
Rare enough to double-check
foisted is uncommon English at frequency #68,223 among 2,507 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ˈfɔɪstɪd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "simple past and past participle of foist".
No misspelling variants are generated for foisted in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is foisted, spelled F-O-I-S-T-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of foist
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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