front
/fɹʌnt/noun, adjective, verb, interjection
front is spelled F-R-O-N-T: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 191 times per million words in written English, the 531st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, front means “The foremost side of something or the end that faces the direction it normally moves” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of front is fronts.
How many letters and syllables are in front?
| Letters | 5: F-R-O-N-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 191 times per million words; the 531st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is front?
Front appears 191 times per million words in written English, the 531st 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 front?
- US /fɹʌnt/
- Australia /fɹɐnt/
- /fɹʊnt/
Front has one syllable (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)-Naomi_Persephone_Amethyst_(NaomiAmethyst)-front.wav, En-us-front.ogg, En-au-front.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with front?
4 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as front from its last stressed vowel (/ʌnt/):
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 front
- fronts plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- further front comparative
- farther front comparative
- furthest front superlative
- farthest front superlative
- fronting participle, present
- fronted participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does front mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The foremost side of something or the end that faces the direction it normally moves.
- 2
The side of a building with the main entrance.
I'll go out the front, and you go out the back.
- 3
A field of activity.
- 4
A person or institution acting as the public face of some other, covert group.
Near-synonyms: frontperson, frontman, front man
- 5
The interface or transition zone between two airmasses of different density, often resulting in precipitation. Since the temperature distribution is the most important regulator of atmospheric density, a front almost invariably separates airmasses of different temperature.
We need to take the clothes off the line. The news reported a front is coming in from the east, and we can expect heavy rain and maybe hail.
- 6
An area where armies are engaged in conflict, especially the line of contact.
- 7
The lateral space occupied by an element measured from the extremity of one flank to the extremity of the other flank.
- 8
The direction of the enemy.
adjective
- 1
Located at or near the front.
The front runner was thirty meters ahead of her nearest competitor.
- 2
Pronounced with the highest part of the body of the tongue toward the front of the mouth, near the hard palate (most often describing a vowel).
The English word dress has a front vowel in most dialects.
- 3
Closest or nearest, of a set of futures contracts which expire at particular times, or of the times they expire; (typically, the front month or front year is the next calendar month or year after the current one).
verb
- 1
datedTo face (on, to); to be pointed in a given direction.
The palazzo has always fronted on a bus stop–but this putative man of the people has kindly put an end to that public service.
- 2
To face, be opposite to.
- 3
To face up to, to meet head-on, to confront.
- 4
To adorn with, at the front; to put on the front.
- 5
To pronounce with the tongue in a front position.
- 6
To move (a word or clause) to the start of a sentence (or series of adjectives, etc).
- 7
slangTo act as a front (for); to cover (for).
- 8
To lead or be the spokesperson of (a campaign, organisation etc.).
interjection
- 1
Used to summon a worker on duty, such as a bellhop.
Front, boy. Front, boy. Front, boy. Front, boy. You four boys show Mr. and Mrs. Gilbreth and their seven–-or so–-Irishmen to 503, 504, 505, 506, and 507.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Front in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | avant, devant , façade , front , antérieur , porte-parole |
| German | Frontseite, Vorderseite , Front , vorderer, Vorder- , Frontmann |
| Portuguese | dianteira, frente , frontal , fachada |
| Spanish | frente, fronte, parte de adelante, parte delantera, parte anterior, principio |
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 front come from?
From Middle English front, frunt, frount, from Old French front, frunt, from Latin frōns, frontem (“forehead”). Doublet of frons.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).