forget
for·get/fɚˈɡɛt/verb
forget is spelled F-O-R-G-E-T, 2 syllables: for·get. The wrong spelling people search most is foget: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 41 of all searches for the word. Forget is a verb meaning “To lose remembrance of”.
How many letters and syllables are in forget?
| Letters | 6: F-O-R-G-E-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: for·get |
| In writing | 115 times per million words; the 932nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, foget, about 20 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell forget?
Forget is spelled F-O-R-G-E-T. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 41 of the searches for forget in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is forget?
Forget appears 115 times per million words in written English, the 932nd 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 forget?
- UK /fəˈɡɛt/
- US /fɚˈɡɛt/
Forget has 2 syllables, split for·get in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-uk-to_forget.ogg, En-us-forget.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with forget?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as forget from its last stressed vowel (/ɛt/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of forget
- forgets present, singular, he/she/it
- forgetting participle, present
- forgot past
- forgotten participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does forget mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
verb
- 1
To lose remembrance of.
I have forgotten most of the things I learned in school.
- 2
To unintentionally not do, neglect.
I forgot to buy flowers for my wife at our 14th wedding anniversary.
- 3
To unintentionally leave something behind.
I forgot my car keys in the living room.
- 4
To cease remembering.
Let's just forget I ever told you anything about it.
- 5
informalTo not realize something (regardless of whether one has ever known it).
People forget how much work goes into what we do.
- 6
slangEuphemism for fuck, screw (a mild oath).
Forget this, I'm done!
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forget in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | oublier , essoubler (Saint-Étienne dialect) |
| German | verlegen, vergessen , verlernen |
| Spanish | dejar, olvidar, olvidarse , desmemoriarse |
| Portuguese | esquecer |
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 forget come from?
From Middle English forgeten, forgiten, foryeten, forȝiten, from Old English forġietan (“to forget”) [influenced by Old Norse geta ("to get, to guess")], from Proto-West Germanic *fragetan (“to give up, forget”). Equivalent to for- + get.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).