forme
"forme" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“forme” is uncommon English (frequency #56,752 among 2,507 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,752
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Obsolete form of form.
Corpus desk
Index EN-forme · forme · English
forme · rank #56,752 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,752
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH forgoing
Nearest frequency peer: forgoing (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “forme”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- FOMC
FOMC
43,252 corpus weight
- fop
fop
43,251 corpus weight
- forgoing
forgoing
43,250 corpus weight
- forme
forme
43,249 corpus weight
- fourfold
fourfold
43,247 corpus weight
- FPV
FPV
43,246 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “forme” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | forme |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #56,752 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “forme” in English
Rare enough to double-check
forme is uncommon English at frequency #56,752 among 2,507 “F” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for forme in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is forme, spelled F-O-R-M-E.
Definition
- 1Obsolete form of form.
- 2Alternative form of form (“type etc. secured in a chase”).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how forme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
And first, although there were more things in nature then words which did expresse them, yet even in these mute and silent discourses, to expresse complexed significations, they took a liberty to compound and piece together creatures of allowable formes unto mixtures inexistent […]
1978, David A. Bloestein, Introduction, John Marston, David A. Bloestein (editor), Parasitaster: Or, The Fawn, page 47, Both these formes, with running titles intact, were retained to print sheet D of Q2.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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