lodge
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "lodge", 5-letters, with pronunciation in International Phonetic Alphabet notation, etymology traced through Germanic and Romance roots where applicable, common misspelling variants catalogued from Hunspell error dictionaries, and usage frequency ranked against the top 100,000 English words in the Wordfreq corpus. PlainSpell covers English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German spelling with confusable-pair detection that highlights visually and phonetically similar words. This entry for "lodge" includes synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and cross-language translation pointers sourced from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org extract. Whether you are verifying the correct spelling of "lodge" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
lodge is aEnglishnoun. It means: A building for recreational use such as a hunting lodge or a summer cabin. Pronounced /lɒd͡ʒ/. It ranks #6,264 in English word frequency. Often confused with log and love.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lodge |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /lɒd͡ʒ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #6,264 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for lodge is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /lɒd͡ʒ/. Corpus data places it at rank #6,264 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 12 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for lodge, with forms such as "ldoge", "llodge", and "loddge". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "log", "love", "long", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *lewbʰ-der.? Proto-Germanic *laubą Frankish *laub Proto-Germanic *-jô Frankish *-jō Frankish *laubijābor. Early Medieval Latin laubiader. Old French logebor. Middle English logge English lodge From Middle English logge, fr… Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is lodge, spelled L-O-D-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1A building for recreational use such as a hunting lodge or a summer cabin.
- 2Ellipsis of porter's lodge: a building or room near the entrance of an estate or building, especially (UK, Canada) as a college mailroom.
- 3A local chapter of some fraternities, such as freemasons.
- 4A local chapter of a trade union.
- 5A rural hotel or resort, an inn.
- 6A beaver's shelter constructed on a pond or lake.
- 7A den or cave.
- 8The chamber of an abbot, prior, or head of a college.
- 9The space at the mouth of a level next to the shaft, widened to permit wagons to pass, or ore to be deposited for hoisting; called also platt.
- 10A collection of objects lodged together.
- 11An indigenous American home, such as tipi or wigwam. By extension, the people who live in one such home; a household.
- 12An indigenous American home, such as tipi or wigwam. By extension, the people who live in one such home; a household.
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *lewbʰ-der.? Proto-Germanic *laubą Frankish *laub Proto-Germanic *-jô Frankish *-jō Frankish *laubijābor. Early Medieval Latin laubiader. Old French logebor. Middle English logge English lodge From Middle English logge, from Old French loge (“arbour, covered walk-way”). See also Medieval Latin lobia, laubia; also Old High German louba (“porch, gallery”) (German Laube (“bower, arbor”)), Old High German loub (“leaf, foliage”), Old English lēaf (“leaf, foliage”). Doublet of loggia and lobby.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ldoge,llodge,loddge,lodeg,lodgge,logde,oldge
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for lodge
Misspelling Variants of "lodge"
Frequency rank: #6,264 in English
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