forehead
/ˈfɔːhɛd/noun
forehead is spelled F-O-R-E-H-E-A-D. The wrong spelling people search most is forhead: about 230 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Forehead is a noun meaning “The part of the face above the eyebrows and below the hairline”. The plural of forehead is foreheads.
How many letters and syllables are in forehead?
| Letters | 8: F-O-R-E-H-E-A-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 7.4 times per million words; the 8,669th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, forhead, about 230 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell forehead?
Forehead is spelled F-O-R-E-H-E-A-D. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for forehead in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is forehead?
Forehead appears 7.4 times per million words in written English, the 8,669th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce forehead?
- UK /ˈfɔːhɛd/
- UK /ˈfɔːɹɛd/
- UK /ˈfɒɹɪd/
Forehead 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-uk-forehead.ogg, En-us-forehead.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of forehead
- foreheads plural
- for'ead
- forrad
- forread
- forred
- forrid
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does forehead mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The part of the face above the eyebrows and below the hairline.
- 2
confidence; audacity; impudence.
- 3
The upper part of a mobile phone, above the screen.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forehead in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense part of face above eyebrows:
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.
Where does forehead come from?
From Middle English forhed, forheed, from Old English forehēafod, from Proto-West Germanic *forēhaubid, corresponding to fore- + head. Cognate with Scots foreheid (“forehead”), Dutch voorhoofd (“forehead”), German Vorhaupt (“forehead”), Danish forhoved (“brow; forehead; face”). Compare also West Frisian foarholle (“forehead”), German Low German Vörkopp (“forehead”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).