fore
/foɹ/adjective, interjection, noun, adverb
fore is spelled F-O-R-E: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 3.3 times per million words in written English, the 14,509th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “for vs fore” about 140 times a month (Google, United States). As an adjective, fore means “Forward; situated towards the front (of something)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in fore?
| Letters | 4: F-O-R-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 3.3 times per million words; the 14,509th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Pairs people search | |
| Sounds like | |
| Rhymes with | |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is fore?
Fore appears 3.3 times per million words in written English, the 14,509th 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).
How do you pronounce fore?
- UK /fɔː/
- British /foː/
- US /foɹ/
Fore has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-fore.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with fore
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Sounds like: for (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with fore?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as fore from its last stressed vowel (/ɔɹ/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: ofer, froe.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of fore
- foremost superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does fore mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
obsoleteFormer; occurring earlier (in some order); previous.
the fore part of the day
- 2
Forward; situated towards the front (of something).
interjection
- 1
An exclamation yelled to inform players a ball is moving in their direction.
noun
- 1
The front; the forward part of something; the foreground.
- 2
The front part of a vessel.
in the fore of the ship
adverb
- 1
In the part that precedes or goes first; opposed to aft, after, back, behind, etc.
- 2
obsoleteFormerly; previously; afore.
- 3
In or towards the bows of a ship.
fore and aft
noun
- 1
A people of Papua New Guinea.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Fore in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense front:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does fore come from?
A development of the prefix fore-.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).