forgotten
for·got·ten/fɚˈɡɑ.tn̩/adjective, noun, verb
forgotten is spelled F-O-R-G-O-T-T-E-N, 3 syllables: for·got·ten. The wrong spelling people search most is forgoten: about 60 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 25 of all searches for the word. Forgotten is an adjective meaning “Of which knowledge has been lost; which is no longer remembered”.
How many letters and syllables are in forgotten?
| Letters | 9: F-O-R-G-O-T-T-E-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: for·got·ten |
| In writing | 25 times per million words; the 3,612th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, forgoten, about 60 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 forgotten?
Forgotten is spelled F-O-R-G-O-T-T-E-N. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 16 of the searches for forgotten 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 forgotten?
Forgotten appears 25 times per million words in written English, the 3,612th 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 forgotten?
- UK /fəˈɡɒt.n̩/
- US /fɚˈɡɑ.tn̩/
- US [fɚˈɡɑ.ʔn̩]
Forgotten has 3 syllables, split for·got·ten in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-forgotten.ogg, En-us-ne-forgotten.ogg, En-us-ne-2-forgotten.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with forgotten?
3 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as forgotten from its last stressed vowel (/ɑtn/):
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 forgotten
- more forgotten comparative
- most forgotten superlative
- forgottens plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does forgotten mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Of which knowledge has been lost; which is no longer remembered.
noun
- 1
A person or thing that has been forgotten.
verb
- 1
past participle of forget.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forgotten in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense of which knowledge has been lost, which is no longer remembered:
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 forgotten come from?
From Middle English foryoten, from Old English forġeten, from Proto-West Germanic *fragetan. By surface analysis, forgot + -en.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).