forçais
\fɔʁ.sɛ\
The verdict
“forçais” is uncommon French (frequency #83,889 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,889
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de forcer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-forcais · forçais · French
forçais · rank #83,889 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,889
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH formal
Nearest frequency peer: formal (-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 « forçais »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fob
fob
16,115 corpus weight
- formal
formal
16,113 corpus weight
- forçais
forçais
16,112 corpus weight
- fossilisé
fossilisé
16,111 corpus weight
- Fourmies
Fourmies
16,110 corpus weight
- Fourniret
Fourniret
16,109 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « forçais » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | forçais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fɔʁ.sɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #83,889 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « forçais » en français
Rare enough to double-check
forçais is uncommon French at frequency #83,889 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \fɔʁ.sɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for forçais in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is forçais, spelled F-O-R-Ç-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de forcer.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de forcer.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).