Laforge
\la.fɔʁʒ\
The verdict
“Laforge” is uncommon French (frequency #77,655 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,655
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-laforge · Laforge · French
Laforge · rank #77,655 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,655
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lancette
Nearest frequency peer: lancette (+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 « Laforge »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- kore
kore
22,352 corpus weight
- labyrinthiq…
labyrinthique
22,348 corpus weight
- Laforge
Laforge
22,346 corpus weight
- lancette
lancette
22,345 corpus weight
- Larroque
Larroque
22,342 corpus weight
- Lebedev
Lebedev
22,341 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Laforge » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Laforge |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \la.fɔʁʒ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #77,655 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Laforge » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Laforge is uncommon French at frequency #77,655 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \la.fɔʁʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Laforge, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, 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 Laforge, spelled L-A-F-O-R-G-E.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
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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