forging
"forging" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“forging” has 11 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #19,090. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,090
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The process of shaping by heating and hammering.
Corpus desk
Index EN-forging · forging · English
forging · rank #19,090 · 11 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,090
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH forfeit
Nearest frequency peer: forfeit (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “forging”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- fil
fil
80,916 corpus weight
- fleeting
fleeting
80,914 corpus weight
- forfeit
forfeit
80,912 corpus weight
- forging
forging
80,911 corpus weight
- foundry
foundry
80,910 corpus weight
- fro
fro
80,908 corpus weight
What this shows “forging” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | forging |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #19,090 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “forging”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around forging, anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,090 among 2,507 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for forging, with forms such as "fforging", "fogring", and "forgging". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 18 confusable-pair relationships, "frying", "forgive", "forming", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is forging, spelled F-O-R-G-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The process of shaping by heating and hammering.
- 2A component that is forged (shaped by heating and hammering).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how forging appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] repeated forgings and workings of wrought-iron […]
[…]one set of 16-inch steel gun forgings[…]
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- fforging
- fogring
- forgging
- forgign
- forgingg
- forginng
- forgnig
- forigng
- forrging
- froging
- ofrging
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of forging - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "forging", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).