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fortin

obsolete

fortin is a noun meaning “A small fort; a fortlet” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-O-R-T-I-N and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 6 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fortin is fortins.

What does fortin mean?

noun

  1. 1

    obsoleteA small fort; a fortlet.

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

How do you pronounce fortin?

    Fortin has 2 syllables (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).

    How common is fortin?

    Fortin appears about once in every 6 million words in written English, the 75,877th 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 fortin come from?

    Borrowed from French fortin. See fort.

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