Formose
\fɔʁ.moz\
The verdict
“Formose” is uncommon French (frequency #63,003 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,003
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Autre nom de Taïwan (île asiatique).
Corpus desk
Index FR-formose · Formose · French
Formose · rank #63,003 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,003
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH foisonnent
Nearest frequency peer: foisonnent (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « Formose »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- foc
foc
37,001 corpus weight
- focalisés
focalisés
37,000 corpus weight
- foisonnent
foisonnent
36,999 corpus weight
- Formose
Formose
36,998 corpus weight
- fourberies
fourberies
36,997 corpus weight
- fournissez
fournissez
36,996 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Formose » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Formose |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \fɔʁ.moz\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #63,003 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Formose » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Formose is uncommon French at frequency #63,003 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \fɔʁ.moz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for Formose in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Formose, spelled F-O-R-M-O-S-E.
Definition
- 1Autre nom de Taïwan (île asiatique).
- 2Ancien nom du fleuve Benin, séparant autrefois les royaumes de Warri et de Benin et situé dans l’actuel Nigéria.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Formose appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le Torquemada faisait partie de la longue cohorte de navires qui évacuaient les contenus des banques et des musées à Formose, où Tchang Kaï-Chek s'est replié après la victoire des troupes de Mao.
Nous cinglâmes de nouveau, le premier juillet, vers les côtes d’Afrique. Après une traversée de cinquante-deux jours, suivant le bas de la Côte-d’or, nous entrâmes dans les eaux de la rivière Formose, au Benin.
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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