forage
\fɔ.ʁaʒ\
The verdict
“forage” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,625. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,625
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de forer ou résultat de cette action.
Corpus desk
Index FR-forage · forage · French
forage · rank #16,625 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,625
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH Floyd
Nearest frequency peer: Floyd (-1 rank slots)
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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « forage »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- favorableme…
favorablement
83,379 corpus weight
- fight
fight
83,378 corpus weight
- Floyd
Floyd
83,377 corpus weight
- forage
forage
83,376 corpus weight
- formateur
formateur
83,375 corpus weight
- forçant
forçant
83,374 corpus weight
What this shows « forage » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | forage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɔ.ʁaʒ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #16,625 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « forage »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around forage (IPA \fɔ.ʁaʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,625 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Action de forer ou résultat de cette action.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for forage, with forms such as "fforage", "foarge", and "foraeg". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "forme", "force", "forte", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is forage, spelled F-O-R-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Action de forer ou résultat de cette action.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how forage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pendant toute la nuit, le forage fut continué, les hommes se relayant d’heure en heure.
La SN REPAL a commencé actuellement deux grands forages : l'un sur l’anticlinal de Rabelais, l'autre sur celui de Warnier. Deux grands rotarys y sont en action.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- fforage
- foarge
- foraeg
- foragge
- forgae
- forrage
- froage
- ofrage
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of forage - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).