forego

Other forms of forego

past tense or participle

foregone

past tense or participle

forewent

present participle

foregoing·

third person

foregoes·

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 forego

What does forego mean?

forego means "be earlier in time; go back further". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in forego?

forego has 2 syllables: fore-go. The stress falls on "go". In IPA it is /fɔɹˈɡoʊ/.

What is another word for forego?

Close synonyms include predate, precede, forgo, antecede, antedate. 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.

Is forego a common word?

forego is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. 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 forego?

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