forces
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#921
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
forces is aFrenchnoun. It means: Sorte de grands ciseaux dont les lames sont réunies par un arc d’acier élastique les maintenant ouvertes, et qui servaient à couper des étoffes, à les tailler, à couper des feuilles de laiton, de f... Pronounced \fɔʁs\. It ranks #921 in French word frequency. Often confused with forme and forte.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | forces |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɔʁs\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #921 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for forces is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fɔʁs\. Corpus data places it at rank #921 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 2 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 forces, with forms such as "fforces", "focres", and "forcces". 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 forces, spelled F-O-R-C-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Sorte de grands ciseaux dont les lames sont réunies par un arc d’acier élastique les maintenant ouvertes, et qui servaient à couper des étoffes, à les tailler, à couper des feuilles de laiton, de fer-blanc, à tondre la laine des moutons, etc.
- 2Meuble représentant des ciseaux de tondeur, de tailleur ou de couturier dans les armoiries. La représentation est généralement la même. Il s’agit de deux lames (d’où le pluriel) reliées par une anse servant de ressort. Les forces sont posées en chevron renversé, autrement dit en V, le ressort vers la pointe, les lames vers le chef. À rapprocher de ciseaux et forces de tondeur.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: fforces,focres,forcces,forcess,forcse,forecs,forrces,froces,ofrces
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "forces"
Frequency rank: #921 in French
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