edge
/ɛd͡ʒ/
"edge" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“edge” has 5 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #1,858. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,858
- frequency rank, English
- 2,246
- “E” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The boundary line of a surface.
Corpus desk
Index EN-edge · edge · English
edge · rank #1,858 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,858
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,246
- PHOTO-FINISH dry
Nearest frequency peer: dry (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “edge”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- discovered
discovered
98,146 corpus weight
- dont
dont
98,145 corpus weight
- dry
dry
98,144 corpus weight
- edge
edge
98,143 corpus weight
- evil
evil
98,142 corpus weight
- excited
excited
98,141 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “edge” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | edge |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɛd͡ʒ/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #1,858 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “edge” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around edge (IPA /ɛd͡ʒ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,858 among 2,246 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 11 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for edge, with forms such as "dege", "eddge", and "edeg". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ee", "eye", "egg", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English egge, from Old English eċġ, from Proto-West Germanic *aggju, from Proto-Germanic *agjō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- (“sharp”). See also Dutch egge, German Ecke, Swedish egg, Norwegian egg; also Welsh hogi (“to sharpen, hone”), Latin … The correct English form is edge, spelled E-D-G-E.
Definition
- 1The boundary line of a surface.
- 2A one-dimensional face of a polytope. In particular, the joining line between two vertices of a polygon; the place where two faces of a polyhedron meet.
- 3An advantage.
- 4The thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument, such as an ax, knife, sword, or scythe; that which cuts as an edge does, or wounds deeply, etc.
- 5A sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; an extreme verge.
- 6Sharpness; readiness or fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire.
- 7The border or part adjacent to the line of division; the beginning or early part (of a period of time)
- 8A shot where the ball comes off the edge of the bat, often unintentionally.
- 9A connected pair of vertices in a graph.
- 10A level of sexual arousal that is maintained just short of reaching the point of inevitability, or climax.
- 11The point of data production in an organization (the focus of edge computing), as opposed to the cloud.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how edge appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I have the edge on him.
It’s no secret that the United States may be losing its edge in civilian aviation. Nowhere is this more apparent than with small unmanned aircraft, those tiny flying robots that promise to transform agriculture, forestry, pipeline monitoring, filmmaking, and more.
Etymology
From Middle English egge, from Old English eċġ, from Proto-West Germanic *aggju, from Proto-Germanic *agjō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- (“sharp”). See also Dutch egge, German Ecke, Swedish egg, Norwegian egg; also Welsh hogi (“to sharpen, hone”), Latin aciēs (“sharp”), acus (“needle”), Latvian ašs, ass (“sharp”), Ancient Greek ἀκίς (akís, “needle”), ἀκμή (akmḗ, “point”), and Persian آس (âs, “grinding stone”)).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- dege
- eddge
- edeg
- edgge
- egde
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of edge - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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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).
What to do next
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- "edge" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "ee". View pair
- 5 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #1,858 among English headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more English words in the "E" letter cohort. E–Z browse
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.