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forgery

/ˈfɔːɹ.d͡ʒəɹ.ɪ/noun

forgery is spelled F-O-R-G-E-R-Y: 7 letters and 3 syllables. It appears 1.5 times per million words in written English, the 22,651st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, forgery means “The act of forging metal into shape” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of forgery is forgeries.

How many letters and syllables are in forgery?

Letters7: F-O-R-G-E-R-Y
Syllables3 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing1.5 times per million words; the 22,651st most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is forgery?

Forgery appears 1.5 times per million words in written English, the 22,651st most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce forgery?

  • UK /ˈfɔː.dʒəɹ.ɪ/
  • US /ˈfɔːɹ.d͡ʒəɹ.ɪ/

Forgery has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-forgery.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of forgery

  • forgeries plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does forgery mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    The act of forging metal into shape.

    the forgery of horseshoes

  2. 2

    The act of forging, fabricating, or producing falsely; especially the crime of fraudulently making or altering a writing or signature purporting to be made by another, the false making or material alteration of or addition to a written instrument for the purpose of deceit and fraud.

    the forgery of a bond

  3. 3

    That which is forged, fabricated, falsely devised or counterfeited.

  4. 4

    archaicAn invention, creation.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forgery in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchforgeage (the act of forging metal into shape)
GermanSchmieden (the act of forging metal into shape), Fälschen, Fälschung (the act of forging, fabricating or producing…), Falsifikat (that which is forged or counterfeited)
Portugueseforjamento, forjadura (the act of forging metal into shape), falsificação (that which is forged or counterfeited)
Spanishforjadura (the act of forging metal into shape), falsificación (the act of forging, fabricating or producing…)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does forgery come from?

Recorded since 1574; from forge + -ery, from Middle English forgen, via Anglo-Norman forger, from Old French forgier, from Latin fabricārī (“to frame, construct, fabricate”), itself from fabrica (“workshop; construction”), from faber (“workman, smith”). (fake): Compare typologically Russian кова́рный (kovárnyj), кова́рство (kovárstvo), ко́зни (kózni) (akin to кова́ть (kovátʹ), ку́зница (kúznica)).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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