forgery
/ˈfɔːɹ.d͡ʒəɹ.ɪ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.19 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The act of forging, fabricating, or producing falsely; especially the crime of fraudulently making or altering a writing or signature purporting to be made by another, the false making or material alteration of or addition to a written instrument for the purpose of deceit and fraud.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "the forgery of horseshoes"
- "the forgery of a bond"
- "Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery—with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible, deplorable, fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family perhaps at a critical moment, when the family is just assuming the robes of respectability: […] it is a black spot which all the soaps ever advertised could never wash off."
Etymology
Recorded since 1574; from forge + -ery, from Middle English forgen, via Anglo-Norman forger, from Old French forgier, from Latin fabricārī (“to frame, construct, fabricate”), itself from fabrica (“workshop; construction”), from faber (“workman, smith”). (fake): Compare typologically Russian кова́рный (kovárnyj), кова́рство (kovárstvo), ко́зни (kózni) (akin to кова́ть (kovátʹ), ку́зница (kúznica)).
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Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈfɔːɹ.d͡ʒəɹ.ɪ/
- British English: /ˈfɔː.dʒəɹ.ɪ/