forever
/fəˈɹɛvɚ/adverb, noun, adjective
forever is spelled F-O-R-E-V-E-R. The wrong spelling people search most is forver: about 40 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 175 of all searches for the word. Forever is an adverb meaning “For all time, for all eternity; for a lifetime; for an infinite amount of time”.
How many letters and syllables are in forever?
| Letters | 7: F-O-R-E-V-E-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 55 times per million words; the 1,865th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, forver, about 40 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Pairs people search | |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell forever?
Forever is spelled F-O-R-E-V-E-R. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 174 of the searches for forever in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is forever?
Forever appears 55 times per million words in written English, the 1,865th 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).
How do you pronounce forever?
- UK /fəˈɹɛvə(ɹ)/
- US /fəˈɹɛvɚ/
- US /fɚˈɛvɚ/
Forever has 3 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). Recordings: En-us-forever.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with forever
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Also written: for ever (one word or two).
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with forever?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as forever from its last stressed vowel (/ɛvəɹ/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of forever
- for ever UK
- fore'er
- for e'er
- forevers plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does forever mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adverb
- 1
For all time, for all eternity; for a lifetime; for an infinite amount of time.
I shall love you forever.
- 2
colloquialFor a very long time, a seeming eternity.
We had to wait forever to get inside.
- 3
Constantly or frequently.
You are forever nagging me.
noun
- 1
colloquialAn extremely long time.
I haven't seen him in forever!
- 2
colloquialA mythical time in the future that will never come.
Sure, I'd be happy to meet with you on the 12th of forever.
adjective
- 1
informalPermanent, lasting; constant, perpetual.
noun
- 1
Alternative form of forever.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forever in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | à jamais, pour toujours |
| German | für immer, ewig, unaufhörlich, auf immer, für eger |
| Portuguese | para sempre |
| Spanish | para siempre , por siempre , constantemente, sin cesar , eternidad |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.