forking
adjective, adverb, noun, verb
forking is an adjective meaning “forked, crooked or winding” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-O-R-K-I-N-G and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 3 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does forking mean?
adjective
- 1
forked, crooked or winding
adverb
- 1
euphemistic fucking (intensifier)
noun
- 1
division into forks
the forkings of a road, or of a deer's antlers
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of fork
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce forking?
Forking has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of forking
- forkings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is forking?
Forking appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 49,368th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).