form
/fɔɹm/noun, verb
form is spelled F-O-R-M. The wrong spelling people search most is fomr: about 210 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 104 of all searches for the word. Form is a noun meaning “The shape or visible structure of a thing or person”. The plural of form is forms.
How many letters and syllables are in form?
| Letters | 4: F-O-R-M |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 |
| In writing | 204 times per million words; the 494th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, fomr, about 210 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Pairs people search | |
| Rhymes with | |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; 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 form?
Form is spelled F-O-R-M. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 104 of the searches for form 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 form?
Form appears 204 times per million words in written English, the 494th 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 form?
- UK /fɔːm/
- US /fɔɹm/
- US [fo̞ɹm]
Form has one syllable.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-form.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with form
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Also written: forme.
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with form?
10 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as form from its last stressed vowel (/ɔɹm/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: from.
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 form
- forms plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- forme
- forming participle, present
- formed participle, past, singular, he/she/it, plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does form mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The shape or visible structure of a thing or person.
- 2
A thing that gives shape to other things as in a mold.
- 3
Regularity, beauty, or elegance.
- 4
The inherent nature of an object; that which the mind itself contributes as the condition of knowing; that in which the essence of a thing consists.
- 5
Characteristics not involving atomic components.
- 6
datedA long bench with no back.
- 7
The boundary line of a material object. In painting, more generally, the human body.
- 8
The combination of planes included under a general crystallographic symbol. It is not necessarily a closed solid.
verb
- 1
To assume (a certain shape or visible structure).
When you kids form a straight line I'll hand out the lollies.
- 2
To give (a shape or visible structure) to a thing or person.
Roll out the dough to form a thin sheet.
- 3
To take shape.
When icicles start to form on the eaves you know the roads will be icy.
- 4
To put together or bring into being; assemble.
The socialists did not have enough MPs to form a government.
- 5
To create (a word) by inflection or derivation.
By adding "-ness", you can form a noun from an adjective.
- 6
To constitute, to compose, to make up.
Teenagers form the bulk of extreme traffic offenders.
- 7
To mould or model by instruction or discipline.
Singing in a choir helps to form a child's sociality.
- 8
To provide (a hare) with a form.
noun
- 1
Acronym of family, occupation, recreation, motivation, a set of potential topics of conversation for use by salespeople etc.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate form?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of form: f..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Form in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | forme , formulaire , former , se former |
| German | Gestalt, Form , Formular, Vordruck , formen, bilden |
| Portuguese | forma , formulário , formar |
| Spanish | forma , formulario, planilla, formato , formar, ahormar |
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 form come from?
From Middle English forme (“shape, figure, manner, bench, frame, seat, condition, agreement, etc.”), borrowed from Old French forme, from Latin fōrma (“shape, figure, image, outline, plan, mold, frame, case, etc., manner, sort, kind, etc.”). In sense "division grouping school students" (now dated), derived from public school nomenclature later adopted by state schools. It is sometimes said to be from the sense of "bench", where students of certain ages would sit together, though this is disputed, or alternatively from the sense of "established method of expression or practice".
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).