foregone
/ˈfɔɹɡɔn/
"foregone" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“foregone” has 11 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #38,843. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,843
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - past participle of forego
Corpus desk
Index EN-foregone · foregone · English
foregone · rank #38,843 · 11 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,843
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH flywheel
Nearest frequency peer: flywheel (-2 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 “foregone”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- feuding
feuding
61,162 corpus weight
- flexed
flexed
61,161 corpus weight
- flywheel
flywheel
61,160 corpus weight
- foregone
foregone
61,158 corpus weight
- foreshadowi…
foreshadowing
61,156 corpus weight
- Formosa
Formosa
61,155 corpus weight
What this shows “foregone” 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 | foregone |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈfɔɹɡɔn/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #38,843 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “foregone”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around foregone (IPA /ˈfɔɹɡɔn/), averb. Corpus frequency is #38,843 among 2,507 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "past participle of forego".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for foregone, with forms such as "fforegone", "foergone", and "foreggone". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "forego", "foregoing", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is foregone, spelled F-O-R-E-G-O-N-E.
Definition
- 1past participle of forego
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how foregone appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"We need a different understanding of revenues and public expenditure. The 15-year freeze on fuel duty and lack of tax on aviation fuel are effectively a huge subsidy to those forms of travel, but they are not described as subsidy because they are foregone revenue. Yet if you invest to hold rail fares, it's seen as subsidy."
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- fforegone
- foergone
- foreggone
- foregnoe
- foregoen
- foregonne
- foreogne
- forgeone
- forregone
- froegone
- ofregone
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of foregone - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "foregone", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).