forget vs fort, What's the Difference?

Which to use

“forget” is a verb and “fort” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#24,336
“forget” frequency rank: #11,467
“fort” frequency rank: 35803
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	forget	fort
Definition	esquecer	forte

Letter map: forget vs fort

Shared letters muted; letters that set forget and fort apart highlighted. Shared run: 4.

6 ch

forget

4 ch

fort

Part-of-speech tell for forget / fort

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: forget is averb and fortanoun. On the page they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 35803, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

forget is recorded at frequency rank #24,336, classified as averb, pronounced /ˈfoːget/. fort is at rank #11,467, tagged as anoun.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 35803, this pair ranks #31,166 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of forget vs fort

Shared letters: fort. Private to "forget": eg. Private to "fort": -.

"forget" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC · "fort" · 4 letters · shape CVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

forget ← fforget · fogret · foregt · forgett · forgget · forgte · forrget · froget
fort ← ffort · forrt · fortt · fotr · frot · ofrt

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "forget" and "fort" mean the same thing in a sentence?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "forget" is a verb and "fort" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

Which is more common, "forget" or "fort"?

"fort" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #11,467 in our Portuguese list, against #24,336 for "forget". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "forget" and "fort".

Full dictionary entry for "forget" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "fort" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #31,166 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"forget" and "fort" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "forget vs former". Nearby pair
Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #31,166 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.