Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

foughten

/ˈfɔːtən/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: fought-en
IPA: /ˈfɔːtən/

15

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

past participle of fight

Archaic

Example Sentences

"Not that I was afraid of fighting, for now I had been three years at Blundell's, and foughten, all that time, a fight at least once every week [...]."
"No, not a thousand foughten fields could sponge Those days paternal from my memory […]"
"“the field must be foughten in our own presence, and divers weighty causes call us on the fourth day from hence.”"

Etymology

From Middle English foughten, foghten, ifoghten, from Old English fohten, ġefohten, from Proto-Germanic *fuhtanaz, past participle of *fehtaną (“to comb; struggle with; fight”), equivalent to fought + -en. Cognate with Scots fochten, fochtin, Dutch gevochten. More at fight.

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: foughten, fohten, *fuhtanaz
Suffix: fought

Usage

Archaic

Rhymes With

boughten

Questions

How do you pronounce foughten?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈfɔːtən/.
What does foughten mean?: past participle of fight
Where does foughten come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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