Borges
"borges" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Borges” has 9 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #35,638. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,638
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname.
Corpus desk
Index EN-borges · Borges · English
Borges · rank #35,638 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,638
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH Boland
Nearest frequency peer: Boland (-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 “Borges”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Blythe
Blythe
64,366 corpus weight
- Boland
Boland
64,364 corpus weight
- Borges
Borges
64,363 corpus weight
- Braden
Braden
64,362 corpus weight
- buss
buss
64,361 corpus weight
- Butterfield
Butterfield
64,360 corpus weight
What this shows “Borges” 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 | Borges |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #35,638 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “Borges”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Borges, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #35,638 among 4,121 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A surname.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Borges, with forms such as "bborges", "bogres", and "boregs". 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, "boxes", "Boris", "borne", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Portuguese and Catalan Borges. The correct English form is Borges, spelled B-O-R-G-E-S.
Definition
- 1A surname.
Etymology
Borrowed from Portuguese and Catalan Borges.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bborges
- bogres
- boregs
- borgess
- borgges
- borgse
- borrges
- broges
- obrges
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Borges - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Borges", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).