formes
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,626
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
formes is aFrenchnoun. It means: Pluriel de forme. Pronounced \fɔʁm\. It ranks #1,626 in French word frequency. Often confused with forte and forts.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | formes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɔʁm\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,626 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for formes is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fɔʁm\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,626 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Pluriel de forme.".
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for formes, with forms such as "fformes", "fomres", and "forems". 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, "forte", "forts", "fumes", 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 formes, spelled F-O-R-M-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de forme.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: fformes,fomres,forems,formess,formmes,formse,forrmes,fromes,ofrmes
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for formes
Misspelling Variants of "formes"
Frequency rank: #1,626 in French
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