forms
/fɔːmz/
"forms" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“forms” has 8 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #1,899. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,899
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of form
Corpus desk
Index EN-forms · forms · English
forms · rank #1,899 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,899
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH figures
Nearest frequency peer: figures (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “forms”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- excellent
excellent
98,105 corpus weight
- exist
exist
98,104 corpus weight
- figures
figures
98,103 corpus weight
- forms
forms
98,102 corpus weight
- guard
guard
98,101 corpus weight
- honest
honest
98,100 corpus weight
What this shows “forms” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | forms |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /fɔːmz/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #1,899 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “forms”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around forms (IPA /fɔːmz/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,899 among 2,507 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "plural of form".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for forms, with forms such as "fforms", "fomrs", and "formms". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "fort", "furs", "FOSS", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is forms, spelled F-O-R-M-S.
Definition
- 1plural of form
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- fforms
- fomrs
- formms
- formss
- forrms
- forsm
- froms
- ofrms
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of forms - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
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