fast-forward
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "fast-forward", 12-letters, with pronunciation in International Phonetic Alphabet notation, etymology traced through Germanic and Romance roots where applicable, common misspelling variants catalogued from Wiktionary, and usage frequency ranked against an open word-frequency list covering the top 100,000 English words. PlainSpell covers English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German spelling with confusable-pair detection that highlights visually and phonetically similar words. This entry for "fast-forward" includes synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and cross-language translation pointers sourced from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org extract. Whether you are verifying the correct spelling of "fast-forward" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
The verdict
“fast forward” is outside the top-ranked English vocabulary, used as a verb — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 12
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: To cause an audio or video tape, digital media stream, etc. to move forward very fast, so that when the device is played, it will start at a later point.
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Browse all word comparisons →| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fast forward |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “fast forward” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for fast forward is 12 letters long, classified as a verb. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for fast forward in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is fast forward, spelled F-A-S-T- -F-O-R-W-A-R-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1To cause an audio or video tape, digital media stream, etc. to move forward very fast, so that when the device is played, it will start at a later point.
- 2To be fast-forwarded; to move ahead in this fashion.
- 3To shift one's attention or focus toward a later point in time.
- 4To advance rapidly in time.
- 5To accelerate.
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Using “fast forward”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is F-A-S-T- -F-O-R-W-A-R-D — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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