forment
\fɔʁm\
The verdict
“forment” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,149. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,149
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de former.
Corpus desk
Index FR-forment · forment · French
forment · rank #4,149 · 10 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,149
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH exécutif
Nearest frequency peer: exécutif (-1 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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « forment »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- emplacement
emplacement
95,855 corpus weight
- exact
exact
95,854 corpus weight
- exécutif
exécutif
95,853 corpus weight
- forment
forment
95,852 corpus weight
- four
four
95,851 corpus weight
- fourni
fourni
95,850 corpus weight
What this shows « forment » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | forment |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fɔʁm\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #4,149 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « forment »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around forment (IPA \fɔʁm\), averb. Corpus frequency is #4,149 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for forment, with forms such as "fforment", "fomrent", and "foremnt". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "furent", "formes", "former", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is forment, spelled F-O-R-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de former.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de former.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how forment appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On pourrait remplir des pages entières avec l’exposé sommaire des thèses contradictoires, cocasses et charlatanesques qui forment le fond des harangues de nos grands hommes ; rien ne les embarrasse.
Décokéfiez le moteur des modèles à deux temps environ aux mêmes intervalles. En effet, lors de la combustion de l'huile deux temps, l'évacuation du cylindre vers le pot d'échappement s'encrasse avec le temps, notamment lors de courts trajets, et des dépôts se forment à la base du piston et dans la culasse.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- fforment
- fomrent
- foremnt
- formennt
- formentt
- formetn
- formment
- formnet
- forrment
- ofrment
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of forment - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "forment", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).