# forge

> English word · Noun · IPA /fɔːd͡ʒ/ · frequency rank #9,901

## Definitions
1. A furnace or hearth where metals are heated prior to hammering them into shape.
2. A workshop in which metals are shaped by heating and hammering them.
3. The act of beating or working iron or steel.
4. A web-based collaborative platform for developing and sharing software.

## Etymology
From Middle English forge, from Old French forge, early Old French faverge, from Latin fabrica (“workshop”), from faber (“workman in hard materials, smith”) (genitive fabri). Cognate with Franco-Provençal favèrge. Doublet of fabric and fabrica. Computing sense perhaps derived from the early SourceForge service, launched in 1999.

## Easily confused with
- **free** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/forge-vs-free)
- **form** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/forge-vs-form)
- **fort** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/forge-vs-fort)
- **fork** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/forge-vs-fork)
- **forms** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/forge-vs-forms)
- **forth** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/forge-vs-forth)
- **forum** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/forge-vs-forum)
- **forty** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/forge-vs-forty)
- **fudge** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/forge-vs-fudge)
- **forte** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/forge-vs-forte)
- **forgo** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/forge-vs-forgo)
- **Foyle** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/forge-vs-foyle)
- **former** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/forge-vs-former)
- **forget** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/forge-vs-forget)
- **formed** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/forge-vs-formed)
- **forgot** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/forge-vs-forgot)
- **forged** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/forge-vs-forged)
- **forked** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/forge-vs-forked)
- **forgive** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/forge-vs-forgive)
- **forgery** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/forge-vs-forgery)

## Common misspellings (7)
`fforge`, `fogre`, `foreg`, `forgge`, `forrge`, `froge`, `ofrge`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/forge