fore
\fɔʁ\
The verdict
“fore” is uncommon French (frequency #63,765 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,765
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Langue parlée en Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée dans la province des Hautes-terres.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fore · fore · French
fore · rank #63,765 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,765
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fonctionneront
Nearest frequency peer: fonctionneront (-2 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 « fore »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- flottaient
flottaient
36,240 corpus weight
- flûtiste
flûtiste
36,239 corpus weight
- fonctionner…
fonctionneront
36,238 corpus weight
- fore
fore
36,236 corpus weight
- fourquet
fourquet
36,234 corpus weight
- fourrées
fourrées
36,233 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fore » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fore |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #63,765 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fore » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fore is uncommon French at frequency #63,765 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fɔʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Langue parlée en Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée dans la province des Hautes-terres.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for fore, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is fore, spelled F-O-R-E.
Definition
- 1Langue parlée en Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée dans la province des Hautes-terres.
This word in other languages
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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