foreign: meaning and words from its letters
7 letters · 11 letter points · starts with F · ends with N
Meaning of foreign
adj
Located outside a country or place, especially one's own.
Example: foreign markets; foreign soil
Originating from, characteristic of, belonging to, or being a citizen of a country or place other than the one under discussion.
Example: foreign car; foreign word; foreign citizen; foreign trade
Relating to a different nation.
Example: foreign policy; foreign navies
Not characteristic of or naturally taken in by an organism or system.
Example: foreign body; foreign substance; foreign gene; foreign species
Listed forms: forane, forraine.
Source: Wiktionary — foreign.
noun
- informal
A foreign person A foreigner: a person from another country.
- slang
A foreign vehicle A foreign whip, a car produced abroad.
- dialectal
A foreign area An area of a community that lies outside the legal town or parish limits.
- obsolete
A foreign person An outsider: a person from another place or group.
Listed forms: foreigns, forane, forraine.
Source: Wiktionary — foreign.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
Words are grouped by sense, so they are not necessarily interchangeable in every context. Search synonyms for foreign.
adjective
relating to or originating in or characteristic of another place or part of the world
adjective
not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something
adjective
not belonging to that in which it is contained; introduced from an outside source
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is foreign in our word lists?
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| American English | Found |
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Letter-value score of foreign
F(4) + O(1) + R(1) + E(1) + I(1) + G(2) + N(1) = 11 points.
This is a sum of letter values without board bonuses or word multipliers. A blank tile is worth zero: subtract the value of each letter supplied by a blank. The score does not establish game validity. Full letter-value table.
Anagrams of foreign
0 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
No other single-word anagram was found in our standard list.
Shorter words from foreign
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