Other forms: favorites
Your favorite is the one you like more than all the others. My favorite film, her favorite place, which is your favorite?
The spelling splits: favorite in British English, favorite in American, and the u also goes in favour and favourable. It works as both adjective and noun and takes no comparative — more favorite is wrong, because it already means the most liked. In racing and betting, the favorite is the competitor most expected to win, which is a different sense with a precise meaning. Note play favorites, meaning to treat one person better than the rest.
1adjectivefavoriteLiked more than all the others.
“It is her favorite chair and nobody else sits in it.”
2nounbestThe person or thing liked best.
“That one is the favorite by some distance.”
3nouncompetitorThe competitor most expected to win.
“The favorite came fourth.”
Too few real examples of this word to estimate which sense is commonest.
favorite is a preferred thing.
Also accepted in games: favourite