forger
\fɔʁ.ʒe\
The verdict
“forger” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,756. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,756
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Façonner le fer, ou quelque autre métal, par le moyen du feu et du marteau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-forger · forger · French
forger · rank #18,756 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,756
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH forcent
Nearest frequency peer: forcent (-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 « forger »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- fish
fish
81,248 corpus weight
- flambeau
flambeau
81,247 corpus weight
- forcent
forcent
81,246 corpus weight
- forger
forger
81,245 corpus weight
- franchises
franchises
81,244 corpus weight
- fumées
fumées
81,243 corpus weight
What this shows « forger » 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 | forger |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fɔʁ.ʒe\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #18,756 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « forger »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around forger (IPA \fɔʁ.ʒe\), averb. Corpus frequency is #18,756 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for forger, with forms such as "fforger", "fogrer", and "foregr". 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", "forte", "foyer", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 forger, spelled F-O-R-G-E-R.
Definition
- 1Façonner le fer, ou quelque autre métal, par le moyen du feu et du marteau.
- 2Trotter, en touchant les fers des pieds de devant avec les fers des pieds de derrière, en parlant d’un cheval.
- 3Inventer, fabriquer (un mot, une expression, une histoire), faire.
- 4Controuver, falsifier, contrefaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how forger appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On peut forger un fer à cheval, une barre de fer, une épée, des armes. - Je veux apprendre à forger.
Vous dites : Nous forgeons sans répit, nous forgeons, Nous forgeons pour tes pieds le boulet et l’entrave, Stupide humanité ! Nous forgeons les anneaux Des chaînes qui te font à jamais notre esclave.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- fforger
- fogrer
- foregr
- forgerr
- forgger
- forgre
- forrger
- froger
- ofrger
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of forger - 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 (9 here; floor ≥5).