formans
French, noun/fɔʁ.mɑ̃s/
formans is spelled F-O-R-M-A-N-S (7 letters) and appears about once in every 31 million words in written French, the 177,898th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Formans is a French masculine noun meaning “synonym of formant (“formative; language unit, typically a morph, that has a morphological function”)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Variante orthographique de formant”.
What does formans mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinesynonym of formant (“formative; language unit, typically a morph, that has a morphological function”)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Variante orthographique de formant.
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.
How do you pronounce formans?
- /fɔʁ.mɑ̃s/
- \fɔʁ.mɑ̃\
- [fɔʁ.mɑ̃]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to formans
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is formans in French?
formans appears about once in every 31 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).