show of force
"show-of-force" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“show of force” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - An open demonstration of power by display of a great number of people or resources.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | show of force |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “show of force” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
show of force is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "An open demonstration of power by display of a great number of people or resources.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for show of force, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is show of force, spelled S-H-O-W- -O-F- -F-O-R-C-E.
Definition
- 1An open demonstration of power by display of a great number of people or resources.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “show of force”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is S-H-O-W- -O-F- -F-O-R-C-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.