archmage
/ˈɑːtʃmeɪdʒ/
"archmage" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“archmage” is uncommon English (frequency #98,980 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,980
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A very powerful mage.
Corpus desk
Index EN-archmage · archmage · English
archmage · rank #98,980 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,980
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH archaeologica…
Nearest frequency peer: archaeologically (-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.
Long-tail ranks near “archmage”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Anuj
Anuj
1,029 corpus weight
- archaeologi…
archaeologically
1,022 corpus weight
- archmage
archmage
1,021 corpus weight
- Arimathea
Arimathea
1,020 corpus weight
- arnis
arnis
1,019 corpus weight
- arterioscle…
arteriosclerosis
1,017 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “archmage” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | archmage |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈɑːtʃmeɪdʒ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #98,980 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “archmage” in English
Rare enough to double-check
archmage is uncommon English at frequency #98,980 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈɑːtʃmeɪdʒ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A very powerful mage.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for archmage, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From arch- + mage. The correct English form is archmage, spelled A-R-C-H-M-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1A very powerful mage.
Etymology
From arch- + mage.
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).