forgot
\fɚ.ˈgɑt\
The verdict
“forgot” is uncommon French (frequency #99,102 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,102
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prétérit de forget.
Corpus desk
Index FR-forgot · forgot · French
forgot · rank #99,102 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,102
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH Fortran
Nearest frequency peer: Fortran (+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 « forgot »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fonctionnal…
fonctionnalisme
902 corpus weight
- fonctionnal…
fonctionnaliste
901 corpus weight
- forgot
forgot
899 corpus weight
- Fortran
Fortran
898 corpus weight
- Fougerolles
Fougerolles
897 corpus weight
- foulage
foulage
896 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « forgot » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | forgot |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fɚ.ˈgɑt\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #99,102 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « forgot » en français
Rare enough to double-check
forgot is uncommon French at frequency #99,102 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \fɚ.ˈgɑt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prétérit de forget.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for forgot, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is forgot, spelled F-O-R-G-O-T.
Definition
- 1Prétérit de 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.
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