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furcal

[ˈfɝ.kəɫ]adjective

furcal is an adjective meaning “Forked” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-U-R-C-A-L and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 30 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does furcal mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    Forked.

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

How do you pronounce furcal?

  • /ˈfɜɹ.kəl/
  • UK [ˈfɜː.kəɫ]
  • US [ˈfɝ.kəɫ]

Furcal has 2 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).

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

How common is furcal?

Furcal appears about once in every 30 million words in written English, the 167,786th 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 furcal come from?

From Latin furca (“fork”) + -al.

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