forêt
[fɔ.ʁɛ]
The verdict
“forêt” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forst, Wald
Corpus desk
Index DE-foret · forêt · German
forêt · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "F" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | forêt |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [fɔ.ʁɛ] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „forêt“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
forêt is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [fɔ.ʁɛ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Forst, Wald".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for forêt, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is forêt, spelled F-O-R-Ê-T.
Definition
- 1Forst, Wald
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.