forgeron
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#22,570
in French word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
forgeron is aFrenchnoun. It means: Artisan qui travaille le fer au marteau, après l’avoir fait chauffer à la forge. Pronounced \fɔʁ.ʒə.ʁɔ̃\. Often confused with formeront and forgerons.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | forgeron |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɔʁ.ʒə.ʁɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #22,570 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for forgeron is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fɔʁ.ʒə.ʁɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #22,570 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for forgeron, with forms such as "fforgeron", "fogreron", and "foregron". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "formeront", "forgerons", "forger", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is forgeron, spelled F-O-R-G-E-R-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Artisan qui travaille le fer au marteau, après l’avoir fait chauffer à la forge.
- 2Ouvrier travaillant à la fabrication des métaux dans une forge industrielle.
- 3Dans certaines cultures d’Afrique subsaharienne, membre d’un groupe dont l’activité traditionnelle est l’artisanat des métaux.
- 4Meuble représentant un personnage exerçant le métier du même nom dans les armoiries.
- 5Poisson de mer de la famille des zéidés (Zeus faber).
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: fforgeron,fogreron,foregron,forgeorn,forgerno,forgeronn,forgerron,forggeron,forgreon,forrgeron,frogeron,ofrgeron
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "forgeron"
Frequency rank: #22,570 in French
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