foresightful

adj

"foresightful" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“foresightful” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
12
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Having, exercising, or characterised by foresight; forward-looking; prudent

Corpus desk

Index EN-foresightful · foresightful · English

foresightful · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 12 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "F" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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Key facts for foresightful
PropertyValue
Headwordforesightful
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechAdjective
Letters12
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “foresightful” in English

foresightfulranks outside the top 100,000 English headwords, in the long tail of specialist, archaic, or seldom-used vocabulary, exactly the territory where a reader stops mid-sentence to double-check spelling.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

foresightful is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Having, exercising, or characterised by foresight; forward-looking; prudent".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for foresightful, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

Etymologically, the entry records: From foresight + -ful. The correct English form is foresightful, spelled F-O-R-E-S-I-G-H-T-F-U-L.

Definition

  1. 1
    Having, exercising, or characterised by foresight; forward-looking; prudent

Etymology

From foresight + -ful.

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "foresightful"?
"foresightful" is spelled F-O-R-E-S-I-G-H-T-F-U-L.
What does "foresightful" mean?
As an adjective, "foresightful" means: Having, exercising, or characterised by foresight; forward-looking; prudent
What is the origin of the word "foresightful"?
From foresight + -ful. See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list