5 letter words starting with for

Looking for a clue for todays Wordle or another Word game? Look no further! We got you covered. We got quite a few plausible five letter words starting with for.

  • FORAM
  • FORAY
  • FORBS
  • FORBY
  • FORCE
  • FORDO
  • FORDS
  • FOREL
  • FORES
  • FOREX
  • FORGE
  • FORGO
  • FORKS
  • FORKY
  • FORMA
  • FORME
  • FORMS
  • FORTE
  • FORTH
  • FORTS
  • FORTY
  • FORUM
  • FORZA
  • FORZE

Sometimes the solution is an uncommon word, then It’s time to learn something new. Here’s the definition of a few of these words:

Definition of foray

foray (noun)

  1. A sudden or irregular incursion in border warfare; hence, any irregular incursion for war or spoils; a raid.
  2. A brief excursion or attempt, especially outside one's accustomed sphere.

foray (verb)

  1. To scour (an area or place) for food, treasure, booty etc.
  2. To pillage; to ravage.

Definition of fords

fords (noun)

  1. A location where a stream is shallow and the bottom has good footing, making it possible to cross from one side to the other with no bridge, by walking, riding, or driving through the water; a crossing.
  2. A stream; a current.

fords (verb)

  1. To cross a stream using a ford.

Definition of forge

forge (noun)

  1. Furnace or hearth where metals are heated prior to hammering them into shape.
  2. Workshop in which metals are shaped by heating and hammering them.
  3. The act of beating or working iron or steel.

forge (verb)

  1. To shape a metal by heating and hammering.
  2. To form or create with concerted effort.
  3. To create a forgery of; to make a counterfeit item of; to copy or imitate unlawfully.
  4. To make falsely; to produce, as that which is untrue or not genuine; to fabricate.

forge (verb)

  1. (often as forge ahead) To move forward heavily and slowly (originally as a ship); to advance gradually but steadily; to proceed towards a goal in the face of resistance or difficulty.
  2. (sometimes as forge ahead) To advance, move or act with an abrupt increase in speed or energy.

Definition of forks

forks (noun)

  1. A pronged tool having a long straight handle, used for digging, lifting, throwing etc.
  2. A pronged tool for use in the garden; a smaller hand fork for weeding etc., or larger for turning over the soil.
  3. A gallows.
  4. A utensil with spikes used to put solid food into the mouth, or to hold food down while cutting.
  5. A tuning fork.
  6. An intersection in a road or path where one road is split into two.
  7. One of the parts into which anything is furcated or divided; a prong; a branch of a stream, a road, etc.; a barbed point, as of an arrow.
  8. A point where a waterway, such as a river, splits and goes two (or more) different directions.
  9. Used in the names of some river tributaries.
  10. A point in time where one has to make a decision between two life paths.
  11. The simultaneous attack of two adversary pieces with one single attacking piece (especially a knight).
  12. A splitting-up of an existing process into itself and a child process executing parts of the same program.
  13. The splitting of a software development effort into two or more separate projects, especially in free and open-source software.
  14. Any of the software projects resulting from such a split.
  15. (cryptocurrency, by extension) A split in a blockchain resulting from protocol disagreements, or a branch of the blockchain resulting from such a split.
  16. The crotch.
  17. A forklift.
  18. The set of blades of a forklift, on which the goods to be raised are loaded.
  19. In a bicycle or motorcycle, the portion of the frameset holding the front wheel, allowing the rider to steer and balance, also called front fork.
  20. The upper front brow of a saddle bow, connected in the tree by the two saddle bars to the cantle on the other end.

forks (verb)

  1. To divide into two or more branches.
  2. To move with a fork (as hay or food).
  3. To spawn a new child process in some sense duplicating the existing process.
  4. To split a (software) project into several projects.
  5. To split a (software) distributed version control repository
  6. To kick someone in the crotch.
  7. To shoot into blades, as corn does.

forks (noun)

  1. The bottom of a sump into which the water of a mine drains.

forks (verb)

  1. To bale a shaft dry.

forks (verb)

  1. To have sexual intercourse, to copulate.
  2. To have sexual intercourse with.
  3. To insert one’s penis, a dildo or other phallic object, into a specified orifice or cleft.
  4. To put in an extremely difficult or impossible situation.
  5. To defraud, deface or otherwise treat badly.
  6. Used to express great displeasure with someone or something.
  7. (usually followed by up) To break, to destroy.
  8. To make a joke at one's expense; to make fun of in an embarrassing manner.
  9. To throw, to lob something. (angrily)
  10. To scold

Definition of forte

forte (noun)

  1. A strength or talent.
  2. The strong part of a sword blade, close to the hilt.

forte (noun)

  1. A passage in music to be played loudly; a loud section of music.

forte (adjective)

  1. Loud. Used as a dynamic directive in sheet music in its abbreviated form, "f.", to indicate raising the volume of the music. (Abbreviated in musical notation with an f, the Unicode character 1D191.)

forte (adverb)

  1. Loudly.