format
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,518
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
format is aFrenchnoun. It means: Dimensions caractéristiques d’un objet. Pronounced \fɔʁ.ma\. It ranks #2,518 in French word frequency. Often confused with fort and forme.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | format |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɔʁ.ma\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #2,518 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for format is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fɔʁ.ma\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,518 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 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 format, with forms such as "fformat", "fomrat", and "foramt". 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, "fort", "forme", "forza", 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 format, spelled F-O-R-M-A-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Dimensions caractéristiques d’un objet.
- 2Dimension d’un volume en hauteur et en largeur : elle est généralement déterminée par le nombre de feuillets que chaque feuille renferme.
- 3Agencement structuré d’un support de données.
- 4Disposition de ces données elles-mêmes.
- 5Facteur de forme correspondant au rapport de la largeur par la hauteur d’une image de papier ou numérique, ou d’une feuille.
- 6Dimension extérieure d’un document rectangulaire en longueur et en largeur.
- 7Genre, acabit.
- 8audiovisuels, Anglicisme, idée, le titre, la configuration d’un programme de télévision,
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: fformat,fomrat,foramt,formatt,formmat,formta,forrmat,fromat,ofrmat
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "format"
Frequency rank: #2,518 in French
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