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foisting

/ˈfɔɪstɪŋ/noun, verb

foisting is a noun meaning “The act of something being foisted; imposition” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-O-I-S-T-I-N-G, and it appears about once in every 17 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of foisting is foistings.

What does foisting mean?

noun

  1. 1

    The act of something being foisted; imposition.

verb

  1. 1

    present participle and gerund of foist (a form of foist)

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

How do you pronounce foisting?

  • /ˈfɔɪstɪŋ/

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

Forms of foisting

  • foistings plural

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

How common is foisting?

Foisting appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 125,655th 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).