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foud

noun

foud is a noun meaning “A bailiff or magistrate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-O-U-D, and it appears about once in every 65 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of foud is fouds.

What does foud mean?

noun

  1. 1

    UKA bailiff or magistrate.

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

Forms of foud

  • fouds plural

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

How common is foud?

Foud appears about once in every 65 million words in written English, the 252,559th 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 foud come from?

From Old Norse fōgeti, cognate with German Vogt, from Latin vocatus, from vocare (“to call”). Doublet of Vogt.

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