lounge
/laʊnd͡ʒ/
"lounge" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“lounge” has 8 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #8,060. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,060
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To relax; to spend time lazily; to stand, sit, or recline, in an indolent manner.
Corpus desk
Index EN-lounge · lounge · English
lounge · rank #8,060 · 8 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,060
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH Leon
Nearest frequency peer: Leon (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “lounge”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- lend
lend
91,944 corpus weight
- Leon
Leon
91,942 corpus weight
- lounge
lounge
91,941 corpus weight
- luckily
luckily
91,940 corpus weight
- manuscript
manuscript
91,939 corpus weight
- Marco
Marco
91,938 corpus weight
What this shows “lounge” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
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 | lounge |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /laʊnd͡ʒ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #8,060 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “lounge”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around lounge (IPA /laʊnd͡ʒ/), averb. Corpus frequency is #8,060 among 2,297 “L” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for lounge, with forms such as "llounge", "lonuge", and "lougne". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "lung", "luge", "lungs", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: Origin uncertain. Perhaps from French s'allonger (“to lie down”). Compare French longer (“to walk along”). Compare also German lungern (“to hang or lounge around, linger”). The correct English form is lounge, spelled L-O-U-N-G-E.
Definition
- 1To relax; to spend time lazily; to stand, sit, or recline, in an indolent manner.
- 2To walk or go in a leisurely manner.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lounge appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
We like to spend our Sundays lounging about at home in our pyjamas.
We lounge over the sciences, dawdle through literature, yawn over politics.
Etymology
Origin uncertain. Perhaps from French s'allonger (“to lie down”). Compare French longer (“to walk along”). Compare also German lungern (“to hang or lounge around, linger”).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- llounge
- lonuge
- lougne
- louneg
- loungge
- lounnge
- luonge
- olunge
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of lounge - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).