forcèrent
\fɔʁ.sɛʁ\
The verdict
“forcèrent” is uncommon French (frequency #86,716 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,716
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de forcer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-forcerent · forcèrent · French
forcèrent · rank #86,716 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,716
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fondra
Nearest frequency peer: fondra (-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 « forcèrent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- flânerie
flânerie
13,288 corpus weight
- flétrir
flétrir
13,287 corpus weight
- fondra
fondra
13,286 corpus weight
- forcèrent
forcèrent
13,285 corpus weight
- forests
forests
13,284 corpus weight
- foulant
foulant
13,283 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « forcèrent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | forcèrent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fɔʁ.sɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #86,716 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « forcèrent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
forcèrent is uncommon French at frequency #86,716 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \fɔʁ.sɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de forcer.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for forcèrent, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is forcèrent, spelled F-O-R-C-È-R-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de forcer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how forcèrent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais les Bazadais se défendirent avec courage et forcèrent ces barbares à lever le camp.
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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