lege
/ˈlɛd͡ʒ/
"lege" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“lege” is uncommon English (frequency #90,655 among 2,297 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,655
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Clipping of legislature.
Corpus desk
Index EN-lege · lege · English
lege · rank #90,655 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,655
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH leavening
Nearest frequency peer: leavening (-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.
Long-tail ranks near “lege”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- LBO
LBO
9,349 corpus weight
- leavening
leavening
9,347 corpus weight
- lege
lege
9,346 corpus weight
- legionary
legionary
9,345 corpus weight
- legitimation
legitimation
9,344 corpus weight
- leitmotif
leitmotif
9,343 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “lege” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lege |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈlɛd͡ʒ/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #90,655 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “lege” in English
Rare enough to double-check
lege is uncommon English at frequency #90,655 among 2,297 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈlɛd͡ʒ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Clipping of legislature.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for lege, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is lege, spelled L-E-G-E.
Definition
- 1Clipping of legislature.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).