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say it: FAW-ray
foray is a noun and verb meaning "a sudden short attack". It is pronounced /ˈfɔɹeɪ/ — FAW-ray. It carries 4 recorded senses.
a sudden short attack
an initial attempt (especially outside your usual areas of competence)
“scientists' forays into politics”
briefly enter enemy territory
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for foray come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.