Fortran
\fɔʁ.tʁɑ̃\
The verdict
“Fortran” is uncommon French (frequency #99,103 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,103
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Langage de programmation, surtout destiné au calcul numérique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fortran · Fortran · French
Fortran · rank #99,103 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,103
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH forgot
Nearest frequency peer: forgot (-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 « Fortran »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fonctionnal…
fonctionnaliste
901 corpus weight
- forgot
forgot
899 corpus weight
- Fortran
Fortran
898 corpus weight
- Fougerolles
Fougerolles
897 corpus weight
- foulage
foulage
896 corpus weight
- fourrager
fourrager
895 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Fortran » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Fortran |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɔʁ.tʁɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #99,103 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Fortran » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Fortran is uncommon French at frequency #99,103 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fɔʁ.tʁɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Langage de programmation, surtout destiné au calcul numérique.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Fortran in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Fortran, spelled F-O-R-T-R-A-N.
Definition
- 1Langage de programmation, surtout destiné au calcul numérique.
This word in other languages
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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