forge

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The verdict

“forge” is uncommon German (frequency #54,528 among 3,474 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#54,528
frequency rank, German
3,474
“F” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Schmiede

Corpus desk

Index DE-forge · forge · German

forge · rank #54,528 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #54,528
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,474
  • PHOTO-FINISH Folgejahr

Nearest frequency peer: Folgejahr (-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.

Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „forge“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „forge“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for forge
PropertyValue
Headwordforge
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[…]
Letters5
Frequency rank#54,528
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „forge“ im Deutschen

Von links nach rechts: die wenigen Träger des Alltags, dann der lange Schwanz kaum gebrauchter Formen.forgefällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Skala ist logarithmisch (jeder Tick ≈ 10× seltener). Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „Folgejahr“ (#54,527), „frauenfeindlich“ (#54,529), „flussaufwärts“ (#54,526). Unter 3,474 „F“-Lemmata liegt „forge“ bei #54,528. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

forge is uncommon German at frequency #54,528 among 3,474 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Schmiede".

forge doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 forge, spelled F-O-R-G-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Schmiede

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 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "forge"?
"forge" is spelled F-O-R-G-E. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "forge" mean?
As a noun, "forge" means: Schmiede
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "forge", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

fuzzy#54,539Erker#54,497ekelt#54,478eisig#54,477

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list