lodge
/lɒd͡ʒ/
"lodge" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“lodge” has 7 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #6,264. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,264
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A building for recreational use such as a hunting lodge or a summer cabin.
Corpus desk
Index EN-lodge · lodge · English
lodge · rank #6,264 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,264
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH lined
Nearest frequency peer: lined (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “lodge”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- layout
layout
93,739 corpus weight
- lined
lined
93,738 corpus weight
- lodge
lodge
93,737 corpus weight
- lords
lords
93,736 corpus weight
- merchant
merchant
93,735 corpus weight
- merit
merit
93,734 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “lodge” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around lodge (IPA /lɒd͡ʒ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,264 among 2,297 “L” headwords. Wiktionary lists 12 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lodge appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[H]e walked across Hawthorn Tree Court on his way to the porter's lodge. […] At the lodge he cleared his pigeon-hole.
the Maldives, a famous lodge of islands
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
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- "lodge" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "log". View pair
- 7 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #6,264 among English headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
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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.