George
/dʒɔː(ɹ)dʒ/
"george" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“George” has 8 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #969. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #969
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter G.
Corpus desk
Index EN-george · George · English
George · rank #969 · 8 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #969
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH Europe
Nearest frequency peer: Europe (-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 “George”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- dark
dark
99,035 corpus weight
- district
district
99,034 corpus weight
- Europe
Europe
99,033 corpus weight
- George
George
99,032 corpus weight
- India
India
99,031 corpus weight
- mine
mine
99,030 corpus weight
What this shows “George” 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 | George |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /dʒɔː(ɹ)dʒ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #969 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “George”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around George (IPA /dʒɔː(ɹ)dʒ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #969 among 2,313 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter G.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for George, with forms such as "egorge", "geogre", and "georeg". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "gore", "Gere", "gorge", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: Name of an early saint, from Middle English George, from Latin Geōrgius, from Ancient Greek Γεώργῐος (Geṓrgĭos), from γεωργός (geōrgós, “farmer, earth worker”), from γῆ (gê, “earth”) (combining form γεω- (geō-)) + ἔργον (érgon, “work”) Doublet of Jorge and … The correct English form is George, spelled G-E-O-R-G-E.
Definition
- 1radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter G.
Etymology
Name of an early saint, from Middle English George, from Latin Geōrgius, from Ancient Greek Γεώργῐος (Geṓrgĭos), from γεωργός (geōrgós, “farmer, earth worker”), from γῆ (gê, “earth”) (combining form γεω- (geō-)) + ἔργον (érgon, “work”) Doublet of Jorge and Geevarghese. The aircraft autopilot sense is probably from George DeBeeson, who patented an early (1931) autopilot system, and/or a reference to the expression let George do it. The Pullman porter sense derives from George Pullman, who hired Black people to staff his sleeping cars, and the patrons of the service seeing the Black people as servants of George Porter, much like how a slave was named after the master.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- egorge
- geogre
- georeg
- georgge
- georrge
- geroge
- ggeorge
- goerge
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of George - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).