barge
/bɑːd͡ʒ/
"barge" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“barge” has 7 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #14,893. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,893
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A large flat-bottomed towed or self-propelled boat used mainly for river and canal transport of heavy goods or bulk cargo.
Corpus desk
Index EN-barge · barge · English
barge · rank #14,893 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,893
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH Barbados
Nearest frequency peer: Barbados (-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 “barge”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- avoids
avoids
85,111 corpus weight
- Barbados
Barbados
85,109 corpus weight
- barge
barge
85,108 corpus weight
- bartender
bartender
85,107 corpus weight
- Bert
Bert
85,106 corpus weight
- birch
birch
85,105 corpus weight
What this shows “barge” 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 | barge |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /bɑːd͡ʒ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #14,893 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “barge”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around barge (IPA /bɑːd͡ʒ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #14,893 among 4,121 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 7 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for barge, with forms such as "abrge", "bagre", and "bareg". 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, "base", "bars", "barn", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English barge, borrowed from Old French barge (“boat”), from Vulgar Latin *barga, a variant of Late Latin barca, a regular syncope of Vulgar Latin *barica, from Classical Latin bāris, from Ancient Greek βᾶρις (bâris, “Egyptian boat”), from Copti… The correct English form is barge, spelled B-A-R-G-E.
Definition
- 1A large flat-bottomed towed or self-propelled boat used mainly for river and canal transport of heavy goods or bulk cargo.
- 2A richly decorated ceremonial state vessel propelled by rowers for river processions.
- 3A large flat-bottomed coastal trading vessel having a large spritsail and jib-headed topsail, a fore staysail and a very small mizen, and having leeboards instead of a keel.
- 4One of the boats of a warship having fourteen oars
- 5The wooden disk in which bread or biscuit is placed on a mess table.
- 6A double-decked passenger or freight vessel, towed by a steamboat.
- 7A large bus used for excursions.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how barge appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Not far from the station can be seen one of the old barges of the Nar Navigation Company which has become so much a part of the bank it has a tree growing in it.
Etymology
From Middle English barge, borrowed from Old French barge (“boat”), from Vulgar Latin *barga, a variant of Late Latin barca, a regular syncope of Vulgar Latin *barica, from Classical Latin bāris, from Ancient Greek βᾶρις (bâris, “Egyptian boat”), from Coptic ⲃⲁⲁⲣⲉ (baare, “small boat”), from Demotic Egyptian br, from Egyptian bꜣjrb-bA-A-y:r*Z1-P1 (“transport ship”). Doublet of bark, barque and baris.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abrge
- bagre
- bareg
- bargge
- barrge
- bbarge
- brage
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of barge - 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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