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frontwards

adjective, adverb

frontwards is an adjective meaning “Oriented towards the front” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-R-O-N-T-W-A-R-D-S, and it appears about once in every 62 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does frontwards mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    Oriented towards the front.

adverb

  1. 1

    Towards the front.

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

Forms of frontwards

  • more frontwards comparative
  • most frontwards superlative

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

How common is frontwards?

Frontwards appears about once in every 62 million words in written English, the 246,401st 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 frontwards come from?

From front + -wards.

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