furcation
noun
furcation is a noun meaning “The act or process of furcating; a forking or branching out” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-U-R-C-A-T-I-O-N, and it appears about once in every 95 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of furcation is furcations.
What does furcation mean?
noun
- 1
The act or process of furcating; a forking or branching out.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of furcation
- furcations plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is furcation?
Furcation appears about once in every 95 million words in written English, the 313,259th 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).
Furcation in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense The act or process of furcating; a forking or branching out:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Gabelung, Verzweigung |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does furcation come from?
From furcate + -ion.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).