foram
/ˈfɔɹˌæm/noun
foram is a noun meaning “A foraminifer” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-O-R-A-M and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 42 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of foram is forams.
What does foram mean?
noun
- 1
A foraminifer.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce foram?
- US /ˈfɔɹˌæm/
Foram has 2 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of foram
- forams plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is foram?
Foram appears about once in every 42 million words in written English, the 199,120th 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 foram come from?
Shortening of foraminifer(a).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).