forepart
noun
forepart is a noun meaning “The front or anterior part of something” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-O-R-E-P-A-R-T, and it appears about once in every 56 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of forepart is foreparts.
What does forepart mean?
noun
- 1
The front or anterior part of something.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of forepart
- foreparts plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is forepart?
Forepart appears about once in every 56 million words in written English, the 234,209th 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).
Forepart in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense front part:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Vorderteil, vorderer Teil, Front |
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 forepart come from?
From Middle English foreparte, forparte, forpart, equivalent to fore- + part. Compare foreparty.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).