fo'c'sle
/ˈfəʊk.səl/noun
fo'c'sle is a noun meaning “forecastle” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-O-C-S-L-E, and it appears about once in every 59 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fo'c'sle is fo'c'sles.
What does fo'c'sle mean?
noun
- 1
informalforecastle.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce fo'c'sle?
- /ˈfəʊk.səl/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-fo'c'sle.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of fo'c'sle
- fo'c'sles plural
- fo'c's'le
- fo'c'stle
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fo'c'sle?
Fo'c'sle appears about once in every 59 million words in written English, the 240,237th 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).
Where does fo'c'sle come from?
Contraction of forecastle.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).