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foreward

obsolete

foreward is a noun meaning “An advance group; the vanguard” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-O-R-E-W-A-R-D, and it appears about once in every 20 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of foreward is forewards.

What does foreward mean?

noun

  1. 1

    obsoleteAn advance group; the vanguard.

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

How common is foreward?

Foreward appears about once in every 20 million words in written English, the 134,976th 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).

Where does foreward come from?

From fore + -ward.

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