lodge
/lɒd͡ʒ/
"lodge" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“lodge” is a regularly-used English word, ranked #6,264 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #6,264
- frequency rank, English
- 5
- letters
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A building for recreational use such as a hunting lodge or a summer cabin.
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 | 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) |
Where “lodge” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for lodge is 5 letters long, classified as a noun, 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 generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for lodge, with forms such as "ldoge", "llodge", and "loddge". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. 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… The correct English form is lodge, spelled L-O-D-G-E.
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.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ldoge,llodge,loddge,lodeg,lodgge,logde,oldge
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of lodge - 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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Using “lodge”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is L-O-D-G-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /lɒd͡ʒ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “log” - see the side-by-side comparison. lodge vs log
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.