foregone
/ˈfɔɹɡɔn/
"foregone" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“foregone” is a moderately-common English word, ranked #38,843 in English word frequency and used as a verb.
- #38,843
- frequency rank, English
- 8
- letters
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - past participle of forego
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) |
Where “foregone” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for foregone is 8 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈfɔɹɡɔn/. Corpus data places it at rank #38,843 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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
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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Using “foregone”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is F-O-R-E-G-O-N-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈfɔɹɡɔn/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “forego” - see the side-by-side comparison. foregone vs forego
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.