forçat
French, noun
forçat is spelled F-O-R-Ç-A-T (6 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written French, the 64,346th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Forçat is a French masculine noun meaning “convict” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a cedilla, forçât is a different word: “third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of forcer”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Celui qui est condamné aux travaux forcés”.
What does forçat mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineconvict
- 2
masculinegalley slave
travail de forçat
verb
- 1
third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of forcer
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Celui qui est condamné aux travaux forcés.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of forçat
- forçats plural
- forçate feminine
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is forçat in French?
forçat appears about once in every 4 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).