analogue
"analogue" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“analogue” has 10 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #20,032. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,032
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative spelling of analog.
Corpus desk
Index EN-analogue · analogue · English
analogue · rank #20,032 · 10 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,032
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH amplitude
Nearest frequency peer: amplitude (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “analogue”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
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79,973 corpus weight
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allotted
79,972 corpus weight
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almonds
79,971 corpus weight
- amplitude
amplitude
79,970 corpus weight
- analogue
analogue
79,969 corpus weight
- archival
archival
79,966 corpus weight
What this shows “analogue” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | analogue |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #20,032 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “analogue”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around analogue, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #20,032 among 3,931 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Alternative spelling of analog.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for analogue, with forms such as "aanlogue", "analgoue", and "anallogue". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "analogy", "analog", "analogous", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: Equivalent to ana- (“functionally similar”) + -logue. See analog. The correct English form is analogue, spelled A-N-A-L-O-G-U-E.
Definition
- 1Alternative spelling of analog.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how analogue appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"But if so, why do you see so many young children on steam trains - apart, that is, from being dragged along by their fathers, or grandfathers? "I think they enjoy them because they are simply so different, so mechanical, so hot, oily and clanky, so dirty, so 'analogue' in a digital world. They are everything modern life tries to extirpate in favour of si…
Etymology
Equivalent to ana- (“functionally similar”) + -logue. See analog.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aanlogue
- analgoue
- anallogue
- analogeu
- analoggue
- analouge
- anaolgue
- anlaogue
- annalogue
- naalogue
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of analogue - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).