forth
/fɔɹθ/obsolete
forth is spelled F-O-R-T-H: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 25 times per million words in written English, the 3,612th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “forth vs fourth” about 590 times a month (Google, United States). As a prefix, forth means “forth, forward, away” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in forth?
| Letters | 5: F-O-R-T-H |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 25 times per million words; the 3,612th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Pairs people search | |
| Sounds like | |
| Rhymes with | |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; 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 common is forth?
Forth appears 25 times per million words in written English, the 3,612th 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 forth?
- UK /fɔːθ/
- British /foːθ/
- US /fɔɹθ/
Forth has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-forth.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with forth
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Sounds like: fourth (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Also written: furth.
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with forth?
2 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as forth from its last stressed vowel (/ɔɹθ/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: froth.
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).
What does forth mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adverb
- 1
archaicForward in time, place or degree.
say forth
- 2
archaicOut into view; from a particular place or position.
The plants in spring put forth leaves.
- 3
obsoleteBeyond a (certain) boundary; away; abroad; out.
preposition
- 1
obsoleteForth from; out of.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate forth?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of forth: fth.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).