forests
\ˈfɒɹəst\
The verdict
“forests” is uncommon French (frequency #86,717 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,717
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de forest.
Corpus desk
Index FR-forests · forests · French
forests · rank #86,717 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,717
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH forcèrent
Nearest frequency peer: forcèrent (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « forests »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- flétrir
flétrir
13,287 corpus weight
- fondra
fondra
13,286 corpus weight
- forcèrent
forcèrent
13,285 corpus weight
- forests
forests
13,284 corpus weight
- foulant
foulant
13,283 corpus weight
- fourmilleme…
fourmillement
13,282 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « forests » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | forests |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈfɒɹəst\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #86,717 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « forests » en français
Rare enough to double-check
forests is uncommon French at frequency #86,717 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈfɒɹəst\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de forest.".
Zero misspellings are on record for forests in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 forests, spelled F-O-R-E-S-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de forest.
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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