ge
"ge" is a 2-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“ge” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #9,186) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #9,186
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The name of the Cyrillic script letter Г / г.
Corpus desk
Index EN-ge · ge · English
ge · rank #9,186 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,186
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH gateway
Nearest frequency peer: gateway (-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 neighbours of confusable “ge”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- Gandhi
Gandhi
90,817 corpus weight
- gateway
gateway
90,816 corpus weight
- ge
ge
90,815 corpus weight
- guarantees
guarantees
90,814 corpus weight
- humidity
humidity
90,813 corpus weight
- humour
humour
90,812 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “ge” against nearest ranked English headwords, not a reprint of the confusable-pair desk.
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 | ge |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #9,186 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “ge”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ge is neighbouring look-alikes ("go", "GM", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #9,186 among 2,313 “G” headwords. Gloss: "The name of the Cyrillic script letter Г / г.".
ge has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "go", "GM", "GF", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Russian гэ (gɛ). The correct English form is ge, spelled G-E.
Definition
- 1The name of the Cyrillic script letter Г / г.
Etymology
Borrowed from Russian гэ (gɛ).
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.