fora
\fɔ.ʁa\
The verdict
“fora” is uncommon French (frequency #60,800 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,800
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de forer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fora · fora · French
fora · rank #60,800 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,800
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH formulent
Nearest frequency peer: formulent (+1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « fora »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- flashes
flashes
39,205 corpus weight
- foisonnante
foisonnante
39,204 corpus weight
- folios
folios
39,203 corpus weight
- fora
fora
39,201 corpus weight
- formulent
formulent
39,200 corpus weight
- fourrier
fourrier
39,199 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fora » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fora |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fɔ.ʁa\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #60,800 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fora » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fora is uncommon French at frequency #60,800 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \fɔ.ʁa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de forer.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for fora in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is fora, spelled F-O-R-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de forer.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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