forgeant
\fɔʁ.ʒɑ̃\
The verdict
“forgeant” is uncommon French (frequency #65,952 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,952
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de forger.
Corpus desk
Index FR-forgeant · forgeant · French
forgeant · rank #65,952 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,952
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH folichon
Nearest frequency peer: folichon (-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 « forgeant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- flatteries
flatteries
34,053 corpus weight
- fluctuante
fluctuante
34,052 corpus weight
- foisonnant
foisonnant
34,051 corpus weight
- folichon
folichon
34,050 corpus weight
- forgeant
forgeant
34,049 corpus weight
- fourragères
fourragères
34,047 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « forgeant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | forgeant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fɔʁ.ʒɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #65,952 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « forgeant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
forgeant is uncommon French at frequency #65,952 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \fɔʁ.ʒɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent de forger.".
No misspelling variants are generated for forgeant in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 forgeant, spelled F-O-R-G-E-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de forger.
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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