foreland
noun
foreland is a noun meaning “A headland” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-O-R-E-L-A-N-D, and it appears about once in every 9 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of foreland is forelands.
What does foreland mean?
noun
- 1
A headland.
- 2
In plate tectonics, the zone adjacent to a mountain chain where material eroded from it is deposited.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce foreland?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-foreland.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of foreland
- forelands plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is foreland?
Foreland appears about once in every 9 million words in written English, the 87,317th 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).
Foreland in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense zone where eroded material is deposited:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | antepaís |
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 foreland come from?
From Middle English foreland, equivalent to fore- + land.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).