furca
noun
furca is a noun meaning “A forked structure, a fork-like part” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-U-R-C-A, and it appears about once in every 68 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of furca is furcae.
What does furca mean?
noun
- 1
A forked structure, a fork-like part.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of furca
- furcae plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is furca?
Furca appears about once in every 68 million words in written English, the 258,950th 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 furca come from?
From New Latin furca (“two-pronged fork”)
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).