foregoing
/ˌfɔː(ɹ)ˈɡəʊ.ɪŋ/
"foregoing" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“foregoing” has 13 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #26,091. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,091
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Occurring before or in front of something else, in time, place, rank or sequence.
Corpus desk
Index EN-foregoing · foregoing · English
foregoing · rank #26,091 · 13 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,091
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH flicks
Nearest frequency peer: flicks (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “foregoing”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- fingered
fingered
73,913 corpus weight
- fished
fished
73,912 corpus weight
- flicks
flicks
73,911 corpus weight
- foregoing
foregoing
73,910 corpus weight
- frighten
frighten
73,909 corpus weight
- gable
gable
73,908 corpus weight
What this shows “foregoing” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | foregoing |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˌfɔː(ɹ)ˈɡəʊ.ɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #26,091 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “foregoing”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around foregoing (IPA /ˌfɔː(ɹ)ˈɡəʊ.ɪŋ/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #26,091 among 2,507 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Occurring before or in front of something else, in time, place, rank or sequence.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for foregoing, with forms such as "fforegoing", "foergoing", and "foreggoing". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "forging", "foregone", "foraging", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is foregoing, spelled F-O-R-E-G-O-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Occurring before or in front of something else, in time, place, rank or sequence.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how foregoing appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
we may conclude, from the foregoing reasonings, that, as certain unity is requisite in all productions, it cannot be wanting in history more than in any other;
Striking confirmation of the foregoing points comes in a letter from a Swindon reader, who writes "[…]."
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- fforegoing
- foergoing
- foreggoing
- foregiong
- foregoign
- foregoingg
- foregoinng
- foregonig
- foreoging
- forgeoing
- forregoing
- froegoing
- ofregoing
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of foregoing - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "foregoing", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).