longe
/lʌnd͡ʒ/
"longe" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“longe” is uncommon English (frequency #89,564 among 2,297 “L” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,564
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To work (a horse) in a circle at the end of a long line or rope.
Corpus desk
Index EN-longe · longe · English
longe · rank #89,564 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,564
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH loofah
Nearest frequency peer: loofah (+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 “longe”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- LMR
LMR
10,441 corpus weight
- loftier
loftier
10,439 corpus weight
- longe
longe
10,437 corpus weight
- loofah
loofah
10,436 corpus weight
- Loria
Loria
10,435 corpus weight
- loupe
loupe
10,434 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “longe” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | longe |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /lʌnd͡ʒ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #89,564 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “longe” in English
Rare enough to double-check
longe is uncommon English at frequency #89,564 among 2,297 “L” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /lʌnd͡ʒ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "To work (a horse) in a circle at the end of a long line or rope.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for longe, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From French allonger (“to lengthen”), or Latin longa (“long”), i.e. the long rope. The correct English form is longe, spelled L-O-N-G-E.
Definition
- 1To work (a horse) in a circle at the end of a long line or rope.
Etymology
From French allonger (“to lengthen”), or Latin longa (“long”), i.e. the long rope.
This word in other languages
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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