engin
"engin" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“engin” is uncommon English (frequency #69,026 among 2,246 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,026
- frequency rank, English
- 2,246
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Obsolete form of engine.
Corpus desk
Index EN-engin · engin · English
engin · rank #69,026 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,026
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,246
- PHOTO-FINISH elucidating
Nearest frequency peer: elucidating (-2 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 “engin”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- editable
editable
30,981 corpus weight
- Edom
Edom
30,980 corpus weight
- elocution
elocution
30,978 corpus weight
- elucidating
elucidating
30,977 corpus weight
- engin
engin
30,975 corpus weight
- eschatologi…
eschatological
30,969 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “engin” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | engin |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #69,026 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “engin” in English
Rare enough to double-check
engin is uncommon English at frequency #69,026 among 2,246 “E” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Obsolete form of engine.".
No misspelling variants are generated for engin in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is engin, spelled E-N-G-I-N.
Definition
- 1Obsolete form of engine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how engin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
How ſay you fryer Robert, out of what foꝛge came theſe warlike engins?
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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