forager
/ˈfɒɹ.ɪd͡ʒə/
"forager" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“forager” is uncommon English (frequency #90,454 among 2,507 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,454
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An animal or person who forages.
Corpus desk
Index EN-forager · forager · English
forager · rank #90,454 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,454
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH foon
Nearest frequency peer: foon (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “forager”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Fiume
Fiume
9,553 corpus weight
- flatscreen
flatscreen
9,551 corpus weight
- foon
foon
9,548 corpus weight
- forager
forager
9,547 corpus weight
- forsook
forsook
9,546 corpus weight
- Frannie
Frannie
9,544 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “forager” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | forager |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈfɒɹ.ɪd͡ʒə/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #90,454 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “forager” in English
Rare enough to double-check
forager is uncommon English at frequency #90,454 among 2,507 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈfɒɹ.ɪd͡ʒə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "An animal or person who forages.".
Zero misspellings are on record for forager in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From forage + -er. The correct English form is forager, spelled F-O-R-A-G-E-R.
Definition
- 1An animal or person who forages.
Etymology
From forage + -er.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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