foxhound
noun
foxhound is a noun meaning “Any of several medium-sized breeds of dog developed for hunting” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-O-X-H-O-U-N-D and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 14 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of foxhound is foxhounds.
What does foxhound mean?
noun
- 1
Any of several medium-sized breeds of dog developed for hunting.
noun
- 1
The Soviet MiG 31 aircraft.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce foxhound?
- US
Foxhound 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)-Wodencafe-foxhound.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of foxhound
- foxhounds plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is foxhound?
Foxhound appears about once in every 14 million words in written English, the 114,361st 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).
Foxhound in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense type of dog:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Fuchshund |
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 foxhound come from?
From fox + hound.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).