dengue
/ˈdɛŋ.ɡi/
"dengue" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“dengue” has 8 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #31,502. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #31,502
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An acute febrile disease of the (sub)tropics caused by the Dengue virus, a flavivirus, transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes, and characterized by high fever, rash, headache, and severe muscle and joint ...
Corpus desk
Index EN-dengue · dengue · English
dengue · rank #31,502 · 8 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,502
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH demeaning
Nearest frequency peer: demeaning (-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 “dengue”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- decompressi…
decompression
68,502 corpus weight
- deflation
deflation
68,501 corpus weight
- demeaning
demeaning
68,500 corpus weight
- dengue
dengue
68,499 corpus weight
- denominatio…
denominational
68,497 corpus weight
- dermatology
dermatology
68,496 corpus weight
What this shows “dengue” 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 | dengue |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈdɛŋ.ɡi/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #31,502 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “dengue”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around dengue (IPA /ˈdɛŋ.ɡi/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #31,502 among 3,470 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "An acute febrile disease of the (sub)tropics caused by the Dengue virus, a flavivirus, transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes, and characterized by high fever, rash, headache, and severe muscle and joint ...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for dengue, with forms such as "ddengue", "degnue", and "dengeu". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "dense", "Denise", "denote", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From West Indian Spanish dengue in 1828, from the Kiswahili term dinga (in full kidingapopo or kidinga pepo, "a kind of sudden cramp-like seizure caused by an evil spirit", dinga itself meaning sudden cramp-like seizure). The borrowed term changed to dengue… The correct English form is dengue, spelled D-E-N-G-U-E.
Definition
- 1An acute febrile disease of the (sub)tropics caused by the Dengue virus, a flavivirus, transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes, and characterized by high fever, rash, headache, and severe muscle and joint pain.
Etymology
From West Indian Spanish dengue in 1828, from the Kiswahili term dinga (in full kidingapopo or kidinga pepo, "a kind of sudden cramp-like seizure caused by an evil spirit", dinga itself meaning sudden cramp-like seizure). The borrowed term changed to dengue in Spanish due to this word existing in Spanish with the meaning "fastidiousness" and the folk etymology referring to the dislike of movement by affected patients of chikungunya which was also reffered to as dengue until the first half of the 20th century.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddengue
- degnue
- dengeu
- denggue
- denngue
- denuge
- dnegue
- edngue
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dengue - 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 misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).