foe

Other forms of foe

plural

foes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about foe

What does foe mean?

foe means "an armed adversary (especially a member of an opposing military force)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in foe?

foe has 1 syllable: foe. In IPA it is /ˈfoʊ/.

What is another word for foe?

Close synonyms include enemy, foeman, opposition, enemy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of foe?

The recorded antonyms are friend.

Is foe a common word?

foe is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with foe?

4 words rhyme with foe. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.