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fortement

French, adverb/fɔʁ.tə.mɑ̃/

fortement is spelled F-O-R-T-E-M-E-N-T (9 letters) and appears 48 times per million words in written French, the 1,739th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fortement is a French adverb meaning “strongly (fulfilling a stricter set of criteria)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Avec force”.

What does fortement mean in English?

adverb

  1. 1

    strongly (fulfilling a stricter set of criteria)

    fortement stable

  2. 2

    highly, extremely, sorely

  3. 3

    seriously, greatly

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

adverb: 1. Avec force. 2. Très, beaucoup. 3. Avec une netteté saillante.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

How do you pronounce fortement?

  • /fɔʁ.tə.mɑ̃/
  • \fɔʁ.tə.mɑ̃\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to fortement

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is fortement in French?

fortement appears 48 times per million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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