forcément
French, adverb
forcément is spelled F-O-R-C-É-M-E-N-T (9 letters) and appears 46 times per million words in written French, the 1,809th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Forcément is a French adverb meaning “inevitably” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, forcement is a different word: “fixing number; cooking the books”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Par force ; par obligation ; par une conséquence rigoureuse ou inévitable”.
What does forcément mean in English?
adverb
- 1
inevitably
- 2
necessarily
noun
- 1
masculinefixing number; cooking the books
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Action de s’emparer par la force. 2. Action de forcer un gibier. 3. Action de forcer ou d’augmenter fictivement les chiffres. 4. Augmentation, renforcement au-delà du normal.
adverb: 1. Par force ; par obligation ; par une conséquence rigoureuse ou inévitable. 2. D’une manière forcée.
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 forcément
- forcements plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to forcément
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is forcément in French?
forcément appears 46 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).