forêt vierge
\fɔ.ʁɛ vjɛʁʒ\
The verdict
“forêt vierge” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vaste forêt jamais exploitée ni aménagée, spécialement sous les latitudes tropicales.
Corpus desk
Index FR-foret-vierge · forêt vierge · French
forêt vierge · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "F" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | forêt vierge |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɔ.ʁɛ vjɛʁʒ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
forêt vierge is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \fɔ.ʁɛ vjɛʁʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
forêt vierge doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is forêt vierge, spelled F-O-R-Ê-T- -V-I-E-R-G-E.
Definition
- 1Vaste forêt jamais exploitée ni aménagée, spécialement sous les latitudes tropicales.
- 2Pubis à forte pilosité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how forêt vierge appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Lorsque j’avais six ans j’ai vu, une fois, une magnifique image, dans un livre sur la forêt vierge qui s’appelait Histoires vécues. Ça représentait un serpent boa qui avalait un fauve.
Son autre point fort était le buisson de ses poils pubiens, semblable à une forêt vierge, qui s’étalait, luxuriant et sauvage.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.