furth
preposition
furth is a preposition meaning “out or outside” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-U-R-T-H and has one syllable, and it appears about once in every 8 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does furth mean?
preposition
- 1
Scotlandout or outside
- 2
ScotlandobsoleteAlternative form of forth.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce furth?
Furth 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).
How common is furth?
Furth appears about once in every 8 million words in written English, the 84,254th 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).
Words people confuse with furth
Also written: forth.
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
Where does furth come from?
A Scots form of forth.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).