forma
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#138
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
forma is aSpanishnoun. It means: Apariencia, figura, disposición, configuración, silueta o estructura externa y visible de algo. Pronounced [ˈfoɾma]. It ranks #138 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with fra and foro.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | forma |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈfoɾma] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #138 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for forma is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈfoɾma]. Corpus data places it at rank #138 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for forma, with forms such as "fforma", "fomra", and "foram". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "fra", "foro", "fría", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is forma, spelled F-O-R-M-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Apariencia, figura, disposición, configuración, silueta o estructura externa y visible de algo.
- 2Molde con el que se crea o genera la forma₁ de algo.
- 3Modo o manera específicos en que algo se hace, aparece, procede, funciona o sucede.
- 4Conjunto de características, especificaciones o requisitos que tiene una cosa elaborada para un fin determinado, tales como impresos, documentos, discos, obras musicales o de ingeniería, leyes, ceremonias, etc.
- 5Según Platón, estructura u organización esencial de algo (εἶδος) que se capta mediante el intelecto, por oposición a lo que se capta mediante los sentidos.
- 6Configuración específica de una palabra o vocablo según su flexión dentro de la cadena sintáctica u organización de las frases.
- 7Modo específico de expresar u ordenar el discurso, la narración, el poema, etc., en oposición al contenido de lo expresado.
- 8Conjunto de elementos referentes al proceso o procedimiento, en oposición al contenido de un pleito, causa o acto jurídico.
- 9Conjunto de características que permiten realizar una actividad, especialmente física.
- 10Pan ácimo cortado con determinada silueta para la eucaristía.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: fforma,fomra,foram,formma,forrma,froma,ofrma
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for forma
Misspelling Variants of "forma"
Frequency rank: #138 in Spanish
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