forkful
noun
forkful is a noun meaning “The amount that a fork will hold” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-O-R-K-F-U-L, and it appears about once in every 26 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of forkful is forkfuls or forksful.
What does forkful mean?
noun
- 1
The amount that a fork will hold.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of forkful
- forkfuls plural
- forksful plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is forkful?
Forkful appears about once in every 26 million words in written English, the 154,067th 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).
Forkful in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense amount a fork will hold:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | fourchetée, fourchettée |
| German | Gabelvoll |
| Portuguese | garfada |
| Spanish | lo que abarca un tenedor |
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.
Where does forkful come from?
From fork + -ful.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).