forfeiting
"forfeiting" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“forfeiting” is uncommon English (frequency #57,391 among 2,507 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,391
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act by which something is forfeited or surrendered; a giving up.
Corpus desk
Index EN-forfeiting · forfeiting · English
forfeiting · rank #57,391 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,391
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH forecaster
Nearest frequency peer: forecaster (-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 “forfeiting”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- foramen
foramen
42,612 corpus weight
- forecaster
forecaster
42,611 corpus weight
- forfeiting
forfeiting
42,610 corpus weight
- formica
formica
42,609 corpus weight
- fosse
fosse
42,608 corpus weight
- freemason
freemason
42,607 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “forfeiting” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | forfeiting |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #57,391 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “forfeiting” in English
Rare enough to double-check
forfeiting is uncommon English at frequency #57,391 among 2,507 “F” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The act by which something is forfeited or surrendered; a giving up.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for forfeiting, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is forfeiting, spelled F-O-R-F-E-I-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The act by which something is forfeited or surrendered; a giving up.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how forfeiting appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The finings and forfeitings of persons of substance and estates were innumerable, some of the last may come to be noticed in this chapter, and in the progress of this work.
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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