foregone

/ˈfɔɹɡɔn/adjective, verb

foregone is spelled F-O-R-E-G-O-N-E: 8 letters and 2 syllables. It appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 38,863rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, foregone means “previous, former” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in foregone?

Letters	8: F-O-R-E-G-O-N-E
Syllables	2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing	about once in every 2 million words; the 38,863rd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched	none measured in search

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).

How common is foregone?

Foregone appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 38,863rd most frequent word form in the list.

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rarerper million words of written Englishmore common

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce foregone?

/ˈfɔɹɡɔn/

Foregone has 2 syllables (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-foregone.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of foregone

more foregone comparative
most foregone superlative

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does foregone mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

1
previous, former
2
bygone
3
informalinevitable; settled

verb

1
past participle of forego (a form of forego)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Foregone in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

Language	Words
French	précédent (Previous, former), passé (Bygone), inévitable, prévisible, couru d'avance (inevitable, predictable)
German	vorangegangen, vorhergegangen (Previous, former), vergangen (Bygone), ausgemacht, unvermeidlich, unvermeidbar (inevitable, predictable)

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.