foredoor
"foredoor" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“foredoor” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A door located at the fore part of a house or dwelling; front door.
Corpus desk
Index EN-foredoor · foredoor · English
foredoor · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "F" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | foredoor |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “foredoor” in English
Rare enough to double-check
foredoor is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A door located at the fore part of a house or dwelling; front door.".
No misspelling variants are generated for foredoor in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From fore- + door. Cognate with Scots foredoor. The correct English form is foredoor, spelled F-O-R-E-D-O-O-R.
Definition
- 1A door located at the fore part of a house or dwelling; front door.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how foredoor appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
This morning the great foredoor quite open, dancing backwards and forwards with all its weight upon the lower hinge, which must have been broken if the dean had not accidentally come and relieved it.
All the pewter is thrown about the kitchen.” But when they looked, all the pewter stood in its place. There then was a loud knocking at the back-door. My father opened it, but saw nothing. It was then at the foredoor. He opened that : but it was still lost labour.
Etymology
From fore- + door. Cognate with Scots foredoor.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.