Fordson
noun
Fordson is a noun meaning “A make of motor vehicle, notably tractors, produced by the Ford Motor Company. The name was dropped in 1964 and replaced by Ford” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-O-R-D-S-O-N, and it appears about once in every 21 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of Fordson is Fordsons.
What does Fordson mean?
noun
- 1
A make of motor vehicle, notably tractors, produced by the Ford Motor Company. The name was dropped in 1964 and replaced by Ford.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of Fordson
- Fordsons plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is Fordson?
Fordson appears about once in every 21 million words in written English, the 139,999th 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 Fordson come from?
From the surname Ford + -son.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).