foundry
/ˈfaʊn.dɹi/noun
foundry is spelled F-O-U-N-D-R-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is foundary: about 250 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 26 of all searches for the word. Foundry is a noun meaning “A facility that melts metals in special furnaces and pours the molten metal into molds to make products.…”. The plural of foundry is foundries.
How many letters and syllables are in foundry?
| Letters | 7: F-O-U-N-D-R-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 2.1 times per million words; the 19,077th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, foundary, about 250 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; 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).
How do you spell foundry?
Foundry is spelled F-O-U-N-D-R-Y. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 26 of the searches for foundry 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 foundry?
Foundry appears 2.1 times per million words in written English, the 19,077th 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 foundry?
- /ˈfaʊn.dɹi/
Foundry has 2 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). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Sapaa-foundry.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of foundry
- foundries plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does foundry mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A facility that melts metals in special furnaces and pours the molten metal into molds to make products. Foundries are usually specified according to the type of metal dealt with: iron foundry, brass foundry, etc.
- 2
The act, process, or art of casting metals; founding.
- 3
A plant that produces chips out of semiconductors in the microelectronics industry.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate foundry?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of foundry: fdry..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Foundry in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense facility that melts metals:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | fonderie |
| German | Gießerei |
| Portuguese | fundição |
| Spanish | fundición, fundería, forja, ferrería, herrería, factoría |
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 foundry come from?
From French fonderie. By surface analysis, found (“to melt (metals)”) + -ry (“place; process”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).