forfaiture
\fɔʁ.fe.tyʁ\
The verdict
“forfaiture” is uncommon French (frequency #57,960 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,960
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Violation par un fonctionnaire public, un magistrat des devoirs essentiels de sa charge.
Corpus desk
Index FR-forfaiture · forfaiture · French
forfaiture · rank #57,960 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,960
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH follet
Nearest frequency peer: follet (-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 « forfaiture »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- figureront
figureront
42,044 corpus weight
- follet
follet
42,042 corpus weight
- forfaiture
forfaiture
42,041 corpus weight
- fossoyeurs
fossoyeurs
42,040 corpus weight
- fragmentaire
fragmentaire
42,039 corpus weight
- frigorifiqu…
frigorifiques
42,036 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « forfaiture » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | forfaiture |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɔʁ.fe.tyʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #57,960 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « forfaiture » en français
Rare enough to double-check
forfaiture is uncommon French at frequency #57,960 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fɔʁ.fe.tyʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
forfaiture has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is forfaiture, spelled F-O-R-F-A-I-T-U-R-E.
Definition
- 1Violation par un fonctionnaire public, un magistrat des devoirs essentiels de sa charge.
- 2Manquement grave à ses responsabilités, à sa parole, notamment considéré comme une trahison.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how forfaiture appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce magistrat a été destitué pour forfaiture.
Alors [le ministre de la Guerre] Mercier va commettre, le dernier jour du procès, ce qu'il faut bien appeler — ce n’était pas de la polémique, c’est un fait — une forfaiture. […] Le dernier jour, les juges avaient terminé, le procès était fini, […] ils devaient discuter le coup pour savoir quel verdict ils allaient prononcer. C’est à ce moment-là, les déb…
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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