Ange
/ænd͡ʒ/
"ange" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Ange” has 5 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #29,911. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,911
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A diminutive of the female given name Angela.
Corpus desk
Index EN-ange · Ange · English
Ange · rank #29,911 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,911
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH anchoring
Nearest frequency peer: anchoring (-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 “Ange”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- amortization
amortization
70,094 corpus weight
- anaconda
anaconda
70,093 corpus weight
- anaerobic
anaerobic
70,092 corpus weight
- anchoring
anchoring
70,091 corpus weight
- Ange
Ange
70,090 corpus weight
- annihilated
annihilated
70,087 corpus weight
What this shows “Ange” 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 | Ange |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ænd͡ʒ/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #29,911 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “Ange”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around Ange (IPA /ænd͡ʒ/), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #29,911 among 3,931 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for Ange, with forms such as "agne", "aneg", and "angge". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "are", "any", "Ann", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: Shortening. The correct English form is Ange, spelled A-N-G-E.
Definition
- 1A diminutive of the female given name Angela.
- 2A diminutive of the male given name Angelo.
Etymology
Shortening.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- agne
- aneg
- angge
- annge
- nage
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Ange - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Ange", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).