fore vs foreground

fore

noun
  • The front; the forward part of something; the foreground. 

adj
  • Forward; situated towards the front (of something). 

intj
  • An exclamation yelled to inform players a ball is moving in their direction. 

adv
  • In or towards the bows of a ship. 

  • In the part that precedes or goes first; opposed to aft, after, back, behind, etc. 

foreground

noun
  • The subject of an image, often depicted at the bottom in a two-dimensional work. 

  • The application the user is currently interacting with; the application window that appears in front of all others. 

  • The elements of an image which lie closest to the picture plane. 

verb
  • To place in the foreground (physically or metaphorically). 

How often have the words fore and foreground occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )