foul-up

Questions about foul-up

What does foul-up mean?

foul-up means "an embarrassing mistake".

How many syllables are in foul-up?

foul-up has 2 syllables and divides as fou-l-up under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for foul-up?

Close synonyms include blunder, blooper, bloomer, bungle, pratfall. 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 foul-up a common word?

foul-up is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.