foldover
adjective, noun
foldover is an adjective meaning “Having one component that folds over the top of another” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-O-L-D-O-V-E-R, and it appears about once in every 47 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does foldover mean?
adjective
- 1
Having one component that folds over the top of another.
noun
- 1
Any food prepared by folding, such as a calzone or apple turnover.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of foldover
- foldovers plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is foldover?
Foldover appears about once in every 47 million words in written English, the 211,986th 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 foldover come from?
From fold + over.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).