forger
French, verb/fɔʁ.ʒe/
forger is spelled F-O-R-G-E-R (6 letters) and appears 2.3 times per million words in written French, the 18,679th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Forger is a French verb meaning “to fashion metal with fire and a hammer, to forge” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Façonner le fer, ou quelque autre métal, par le moyen du feu et du marteau”.
What does forger mean in English?
verb
- 1
to fashion metal with fire and a hammer, to forge
- 2
to forge, falsify
- 3
to create, to conceive, to make up
- 4
to coin (a word or phrase)
- 5
to trot
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Façonner le fer, ou quelque autre métal, par le moyen du feu et du marteau. 2. Trotter, en touchant les fers des pieds de devant avec les fers des pieds de derrière, en parlant d’un cheval. 3. Inventer, fabriquer (un mot, une expression, une histoire), faire. 4. Controuver, falsifier, contrefaire.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of forger
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- forgeant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- forgé participle past
- forge first-person indicative present
- forges indicative present second-person
- forgeons first-person indicative plural
- forgez indicative plural present
- forgent indicative plural present
- forgeais first-person imperfect indicative
- forgeait imperfect indicative singular
- forgions first-person imperfect indicative
- forgiez imperfect indicative plural
- forgeaient imperfect indicative plural
- forgeai first-person historic indicative
- forgeas historic indicative past
- forgea historic indicative past
- forgeâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce forger?
- /fɔʁ.ʒe/
- \fɔʁ.ʒe\
- [fɔʁ.ʒe]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to forger
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is forger in French?
forger appears 2.3 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).