forer
French, verb/fɔ.ʁe/
forer is spelled F-O-R-E-R (5 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 42,227th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Forer is a French verb meaning “to bore; to drill (to make a hole)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Creuser un orifice dans une matière rigide”.
What does forer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to bore; to drill (to make a hole)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Creuser un orifice dans une matière rigide.
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 forer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- forant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- foré participle past
- fore first-person indicative present
- fores indicative present second-person
- forons first-person indicative plural
- forez indicative plural present
- forent indicative plural present
- forais first-person imperfect indicative
- forait imperfect indicative singular
- forions first-person imperfect indicative
- foriez imperfect indicative plural
- foraient imperfect indicative plural
- forai first-person historic indicative
- foras historic indicative past
- fora historic indicative past
- forâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce forer?
- /fɔ.ʁe/
- \fɔ.ʁe\
- [fɔ.ʁe]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to forer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is forer in French?
forer appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).