fort
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#380
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
fort is anFrenchadj. It means: Costaud, robuste, vigoureux. Pronounced \fɔʁ\. It ranks #380 in French word frequency. Often confused with ft and fou.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fort |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \fɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #380 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for fort is 4 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fɔʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #380 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 20 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for fort, with forms such as "ffort", "forrt", and "fortt". 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, "ft", "fou", "fût", 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 fort, spelled F-O-R-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Costaud, robuste, vigoureux.
- 2Qui est puissant.
- 3Solide.
- 4Capable, habile, expérimenté.
- 5Gros.
- 6Intense, qui fait une vive impression sur le goût et sur l’odorat, la vue…
- 7Qui est impétueux, violent, énergique.
- 8Qui est important ou considérable.
- 9Qui est courageux, magnanime, ferme.
- 10Qui est gros et épais de matière, capable de porter un poids ou de résister à un choc.
- 11Qui est en état de résister aux attaques de l’ennemi.
- 12Nombreux.
- 13Rude, difficile, pénible.
- 14Considérable dans son genre et supérieur à une certaine valeur.
- 15La musique se divise en temps faibles et en temps forts.
- 16Qui est bien fondé, qui est appuyé sur de bons principes.
- 17Par comparaison du plus au moins,
- 18Il se dit également des expressions, du style, etc., lorsqu’ils joignent l’énergie à la justesse et qu’ils sont capables de frapper, d’entraîner.
- 19Raisonneur, indiscipliné ou obstiné.
- 20Se construit souvent avec la préposition « en » ou « de » suivie d’un nom qui indique le genre de force, la cause, la qualité, les ressources, etc., qui rendent fort.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ffort,forrt,fortt,fotr,frot,ofrt
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for fort
Misspelling Variants of "fort"
Frequency rank: #380 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter F in our French index: