forgotten
\fə.ˈɡɒt.n̩\
The verdict
“forgotten” is uncommon French (frequency #80,227 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,227
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Oublié.
Corpus desk
Index FR-forgotten · forgotten · French
forgotten · rank #80,227 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,227
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH forbidden
Nearest frequency peer: forbidden (-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 « forgotten »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fongiques
fongiques
19,777 corpus weight
- forbidden
forbidden
19,775 corpus weight
- forgotten
forgotten
19,774 corpus weight
- foulent
foulent
19,773 corpus weight
- fountain
fountain
19,772 corpus weight
- fractale
fractale
19,771 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « forgotten » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | forgotten |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fə.ˈɡɒt.n̩\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #80,227 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « forgotten » en français
Rare enough to double-check
forgotten is uncommon French at frequency #80,227 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \fə.ˈɡɒt.n̩\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Oublié.".
No misspelling variants are generated for forgotten in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is forgotten, spelled F-O-R-G-O-T-T-E-N.
Definition
- 1Oublié.
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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