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forky

adjective

forky is an adjective meaning “Synonym of forked” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-O-R-K-Y, and it appears about once in every 52 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does forky mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    Synonym of forked.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of forky

  • forkier comparative
  • more forky comparative
  • forkiest superlative
  • most forky superlative

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is forky?

Forky appears about once in every 52 million words in written English, the 225,584th 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 forky come from?

From fork + -y.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).