Ganges
/ˈɡændʒiːz/
"ganges" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Ganges” has 9 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #32,006. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,006
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A river in India and Bangladesh, sacred within Hinduism.
Corpus desk
Index EN-ganges · Ganges · English
Ganges · rank #32,006 · 9 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,006
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH gad
Nearest frequency peer: gad (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “Ganges”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- fundamental…
fundamentalism
68,000 corpus weight
- Gabon
Gabon
67,998 corpus weight
- gad
gad
67,997 corpus weight
- Ganges
Ganges
67,995 corpus weight
- Gaz
Gaz
67,992 corpus weight
- girth
girth
67,991 corpus weight
What this shows “Ganges” 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 | Ganges |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈɡændʒiːz/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #32,006 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “Ganges”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Ganges (IPA /ˈɡændʒiːz/), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #32,006 among 2,313 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A river in India and Bangladesh, sacred within Hinduism.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Ganges, with forms such as "agnges", "gagnes", and "ganegs". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "gates", "genes", "gauge", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Latin Gangēs, from Ancient Greek Γάγγης (Gángēs), from Sanskrit गङ्गा (gáṅgā, literally “swift-goer”), from the verbal root गम् (gam, “to go”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷem- (“to come”) (whence Latin veniō, Ancient Greek βαίνω (baínō), and E… The correct English form is Ganges, spelled G-A-N-G-E-S.
Definition
- 1A river in India and Bangladesh, sacred within Hinduism.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Ganges appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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Etymology
Borrowed from Latin Gangēs, from Ancient Greek Γάγγης (Gángēs), from Sanskrit गङ्गा (gáṅgā, literally “swift-goer”), from the verbal root गम् (gam, “to go”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷem- (“to come”) (whence Latin veniō, Ancient Greek βαίνω (baínō), and English come). Doublet of Ganga.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- agnges
- gagnes
- ganegs
- gangess
- gangges
- gangse
- gannges
- gganges
- gnages
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Ganges - 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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