forcer
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,921
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
forcer is aFrenchverb. It means: Briser, rompre, ouvrir quelque chose avec violence. Pronounced \fɔʁ.se\. It ranks #3,921 in French word frequency. Often confused with forme and forte.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | forcer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fɔʁ.se\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #3,921 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for forcer is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fɔʁ.se\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,921 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 15 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for forcer, with forms such as "fforcer", "focrer", and "forccer". 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, "forme", "forte", "forêt", 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 French form is forcer, spelled F-O-R-C-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Briser, rompre, ouvrir quelque chose avec violence.
- 2Fausser, tordre, détériorer par une manœuvre violente.
- 3Prendre par force, enfoncer.
- 4Contraindre ou obliger à quelque chose.
- 5Obliger à donner son consentement.
- 6Pousser à plus, ou à trop, d'effort.
- 7Pousser à trop de quantité, augmenter inconsidérément.
- 8Prendre le gibier avec des chiens de chasse, après l’avoir couru et réduit aux abois.
- 9Dans certains langages de programmation, instruire le type d’une variable pour quelque chose d’autre que son type original.
- 10Faire donner artificiellement plus ou plus tôt qu’elles n’auraient donné naturellement, en parlant des plantes.
- 11Fournir un gros effort, se dépenser.
- 12Monter l’enchère.
- 13Faire force.
- 14Faire quelque chose avec trop de force et de véhémence.
- 15Se contraindre, faire effort sur soi-même.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: fforcer,focrer,forccer,forcerr,forcre,forecr,forrcer,frocer,ofrcer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for forcer
Misspelling Variants of "forcer"
Frequency rank: #3,921 in French
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