mage
/meɪd͡ʒ/
"mage" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“mage” has 5 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #26,873. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,873
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A magician, wizard, sorcerer, witch, warlock or mystic.
Corpus desk
Index EN-mage · mage · English
mage · rank #26,873 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,873
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH Maddox
Nearest frequency peer: Maddox (-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 “mage”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- lynching
lynching
73,131 corpus weight
- lynx
lynx
73,130 corpus weight
- Maddox
Maddox
73,129 corpus weight
- mage
mage
73,128 corpus weight
- mahatma
mahatma
73,127 corpus weight
- mainline
mainline
73,126 corpus weight
What this shows “mage” 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 | mage |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /meɪd͡ʒ/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #26,873 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “mage”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around mage (IPA /meɪd͡ʒ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #26,873 among 4,057 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for mage, with forms such as "amge", "maeg", and "magge". 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, "ME", "MG", "may", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English mages (plurale tantum), from Latin magus, from Ancient Greek Μάγος (Mágos), from the hapax Old Persian 𐎶𐎦𐎢𐏁 (m-gu-u-š /maguš/). Doublet of magus. The correct English form is mage, spelled M-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1A magician, wizard, sorcerer, witch, warlock or mystic.
- 2Synonym of magus: a Zoroastrian priest.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
While the liberality of Gelo and his brother Hiero atracted every stranger who could amuse or instruct the court of Syracuse, a Persian Mage related to the former of those princes that he himself had circumnavigated the whole continent of Africa.
Etymology
From Middle English mages (plurale tantum), from Latin magus, from Ancient Greek Μάγος (Mágos), from the hapax Old Persian 𐎶𐎦𐎢𐏁 (m-gu-u-š /maguš/). Doublet of magus.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amge
- maeg
- magge
- mgae
- mmage
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mage - 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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).