Maggie
/ˈmæɡi/
"maggie" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Maggie” has 6 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #9,628. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,628
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 19
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A diminutive of the female given name Margaret.
Corpus desk
Index EN-maggie · Maggie · English
Maggie · rank #9,628 · 6 variants · 19 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,628
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH madame
Nearest frequency peer: madame (-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 “Maggie”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Lyon
Lyon
90,376 corpus weight
- madame
madame
90,374 corpus weight
- Maggie
Maggie
90,373 corpus weight
- Marion
Marion
90,372 corpus weight
- mel
mel
90,371 corpus weight
- melting
melting
90,370 corpus weight
What this shows “Maggie” 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 | Maggie |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈmæɡi/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #9,628 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “Maggie”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around Maggie (IPA /ˈmæɡi/), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #9,628 among 4,057 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for Maggie, with forms such as "amggie", "maggei", and "magie". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 19 confusable-pair relationships, "magi", "magic", "Marie", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is Maggie, spelled M-A-G-G-I-E.
Definition
- 1A diminutive of the female given name Margaret.
- 2Margaret Thatcher, former British prime minister.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Maggie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Maggie. Never in her life had she heard her mother called Maggie. It was a name from her youth, that dead time Jerene had never been allowed to talk about [- - -]. Her mother was Margaret now.
I could tell that some of the guests were confused by the name of Maggie―no-one had called her by that clunky, unfashionable name in years―
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amggie
- maggei
- magie
- magige
- mgagie
- mmaggie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Maggie - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Maggie", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (6 here; floor ≥5).