forget

Name: forget, French Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

\fɔʁ.ʒɛ\

/\fɔʁ.ʒɛ\/ noun

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed September 3, 2026

The verdict

“forget” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,629. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#21,629
frequency rank, French: 3,276
“F” headwords: 9
tracked misspellings: 20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partie en débord d’une toiture.

Corpus desk

Index FR-forget · forget · French

forget · rank #21,629 · 9 variants · 20 confusables

FREQ-MID #21,629
LEN-LONG 6 letters
VOW-2 2 vowels
CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
VAR-MID 9 variants
BOOK-MID 3,276
PHOTO-FINISH forestières

Nearest frequency peer: forestières (-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.

Fidji

78,375
fidèlement

78,374
forestières

78,373
forget

78,372
fourgon

78,371
fury

78,370

What this shows « forget » 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).

forget vs fort

67% similar

forget vs forme

67% similar

forget vs forte

67% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for forget
Property	Value
Headword	forget
Language	French
Part of speech	Noun
IPA	\fɔʁ.ʒɛ\
Letters	6
Frequency rank	#21,629
Misspellings tracked	9
Confusable pairs	20
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « forget »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).forgetse place ici:

#21,629

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « forestières » (#21,628), « fourgon » (#21,630), « fidèlement » (#21,627). Parmi 3,276 lemmes en « F », « forget » est au #21,629. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around forget (IPA \fɔʁ.ʒɛ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #21,629 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Partie en débord d’une toiture.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for forget, with forms such as "fforget", "fogret", and "foregt". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "fort", "forme", "forte", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is forget, spelled F-O-R-G-E-T.

Definition

1
Partie en débord d’une toiture.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how forget appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

À la question qui fait le sujet de ce second paragraphe, prend sa source dans l’interprétation que M. Reyre donne à la clause suivante de nos conventions : « Les toits desdits bâtiments ne pourront jamais avoir leur forget élevé au-dessus du forget actuel du bâtiment principal qui existe sur la rue St-Marcel ; il est bien entendu que les toits auront en o…

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

fforget
fogret
foregt
forgett
forgget
forgte
forrget
froget
ofrget

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of forget - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

Edit distance from "forget"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "forget"?

"forget" is spelled F-O-R-G-E-T. The IPA pronunciation is \fɔʁ.ʒɛ\.

What does "forget" mean?

As a noun, "forget" means: Partie en débord d’une toiture.

What words are commonly confused with "forget"?

"forget" is commonly confused with "fort", "forme", "forte". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.

How do you pronounce "forget"?

The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "forget" is \fɔʁ.ʒɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.

What language does "forget" come from?

"forget" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.

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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "forget", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

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