found
/ˈfaʊ̯nd/noun, verb
found is spelled F-O-U-N-D. The wrong spelling people search most is foudn: about 40 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 200 of all searches for the word. Found is a noun meaning “Food and lodging; board”. The plural of found is founds.
How many letters and syllables are in found?
| Letters | 5: F-O-U-N-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 |
| In writing | 479 times per million words; the 197th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, foudn, about 40 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with | |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell found?
Found is spelled F-O-U-N-D. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 202 of the searches for found in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is found?
Found appears 479 times per million words in written English, the 197th 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).
How do you pronounce found?
- US /ˈfaʊ̯nd/
- /ˈfæʊ̯nd/
- /ˈfaːnd/
Found has one syllable.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-found.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with found
Also written: fount.
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with found?
11 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as found from its last stressed vowel (/aʊnd/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: fondu.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of found
- founds present, singular, he/she/it, plural
- founding participle, present
- founded participle, past, singular, he/she/it, plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does found mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Food and lodging; board.
- 2
The period of time when a furnace is at its hottest; the interval in which the furnace is meant to fully melt glass.
- 3
A thin, single-cut file for comb-makers.
verb
- 1
To start (an institution or organization).
- 2
To begin building.
- 3
To use as a foundation; to base.
- 4
To melt, especially of metal or glass in an industrial setting.
- 5
To form by melting a metal and pouring it into a mould; to cast.
- 6
simple past and past participle of find
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Found in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | fonder |
| German | gründen , errichten |
| Portuguese | fundar |
| Spanish | fundar, instaurar, condir (disused) |
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 found come from?
See find.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).