hinge
/ˈhɪnd͡ʒ/
"hinge" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“hinge” has 7 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #19,106. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,106
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A jointed or flexible device that allows the pivoting of a door etc.
Corpus desk
Index EN-hinge · hinge · English
hinge · rank #19,106 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,106
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH Hermione
Nearest frequency peer: Hermione (-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 “hinge”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- healer
healer
80,898 corpus weight
- heals
heals
80,897 corpus weight
- Hermione
Hermione
80,896 corpus weight
- hinge
hinge
80,895 corpus weight
- Hubbard
Hubbard
80,894 corpus weight
- hurley
hurley
80,893 corpus weight
What this shows “hinge” 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 | hinge |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈhɪnd͡ʒ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #19,106 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “hinge”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around hinge (IPA /ˈhɪnd͡ʒ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,106 among 2,646 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 9 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for hinge, with forms such as "hhinge", "higne", and "hineg". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "huge", "hong", "hire", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English henge (“hinge”), from Old English *henġ or *henġe (“hinge”), from Proto-West Germanic *hangiju or *hangī; compare Old English *henġe- in henġeclif (“overhanging cliff”), Old English henġen (“hanging; that upon which a thing is hung”). Ak… The correct English form is hinge, spelled H-I-N-G-E.
Definition
- 1A jointed or flexible device that allows the pivoting of a door etc.
- 2A naturally occurring joint resembling such hardware in form or action, as in the shell of a bivalve.
- 3A stamp hinge, a folded and gummed paper rectangle for affixing postage stamps in an album.
- 4A principle, or a point in time, on which subsequent reasonings or events depend.
- 5The median of the upper or lower half of a batch, sample, or probability distribution.
- 6One of the four cardinal points, east, west, north, or south.
- 7A movement that presents itself as rotation when an off-centre fixed point is taken into account.
- 8In polyamory, a person connected emotionally or sexually to two others who are not connected to each other.
- 9To be in poor health; to be out of sorts.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hinge appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The massy portals of the churches swung creaking on their hinges; and some lay dead on the pavement.
The pedicel of the pollinium is articulated as before by a hinge to the disc; it can move freely only in one direction owing to one end of the disc being upturned.
Etymology
From Middle English henge (“hinge”), from Old English *henġ or *henġe (“hinge”), from Proto-West Germanic *hangiju or *hangī; compare Old English *henġe- in henġeclif (“overhanging cliff”), Old English henġen (“hanging; that upon which a thing is hung”). Akin to Scots heenge (“hinge”), Saterland Frisian Hänge (“hinge”), Low German henge (“hook, hinge, handle”), Dutch heng (“moving leaf of a hinge”), geheng (“hinge”), Middle Dutch henghe, hanghe (“hook, hinge, handle”), Scots hingel (“any attachment by which something is hung or fastened”), Dutch hengel (“hook”), hengsel (“handle”), dialectal German Hängel (“hook, joint”), German Henkel (“handle, hook”), Danish hængsel (“hinge”), Faroese hongsl (“hinge”), Icelandic hengsli (“hinge”), Norwegian hengsel (“hinge”), Swedish hängsle (“suspender”), Old English hōn (“to hang”), hangian (“to cause to hang, hang up”). More at hang.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hhinge
- higne
- hineg
- hingge
- hinnge
- hnige
- ihnge
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of hinge - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 misspelling depth
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