foldaway
adjective, noun
foldaway is an adjective meaning “That may be folded away when not in use” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-O-L-D-A-W-A-Y, and it appears about once in every 31 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does foldaway mean?
adjective
- 1
That may be folded away when not in use.
noun
- 1
A piece of furniture, of any kind, that can be folded away when not in use.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of foldaway
- foldaways plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is foldaway?
Foldaway appears about once in every 31 million words in written English, the 169,822nd 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 foldaway come from?
From fold + away.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).