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foreperson

noun

foreperson is a noun meaning “A leader of a work crew” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-O-R-E-P-E-R-S-O-N and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 45 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of foreperson is forepersons or forepeople.

What does foreperson mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A leader of a work crew.

  2. 2

    The member of a jury who presides over it and speaks on its behalf.

  3. 3

    A forefather, predecessor.

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

How do you pronounce foreperson?

    Foreperson has 3 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).

    Forms of foreperson

    • forepersons plural
    • forepeople plural

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

    How common is foreperson?

    Foreperson appears about once in every 45 million words in written English, the 206,808th 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).

    Foreperson in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

    LanguageWords
    GermanVorarbeiter, Vorarbeiterin, Polier, Polierin (leader of a work crew), Sprecher der Geschworenen, Sprecherin der Geschworenen (member of a jury who presides over it and…)

    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 foreperson come from?

    From fore- + person.

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