magus
/ˈmeɪɡəs/
"magus" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“magus” has 7 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #46,600. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #46,600
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A magician; (derogatory) a conjurer or sorcerer, especially one who is a charlatan or trickster.
Corpus desk
Index EN-magus · magus · English
magus · rank #46,600 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #46,600
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH magnanimous
Nearest frequency peer: magnanimous (-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 “magus”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- maas
maas
53,404 corpus weight
- Maasai
Maasai
53,403 corpus weight
- magnanimous
magnanimous
53,402 corpus weight
- magus
magus
53,401 corpus weight
- Manchurian
Manchurian
53,399 corpus weight
- maniacal
maniacal
53,398 corpus weight
What this shows “magus” 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 | magus |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈmeɪɡəs/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #46,600 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “magus”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around magus (IPA /ˈmeɪɡəs/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #46,600 among 4,057 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for magus, with forms such as "amgus", "maggus", and "magsu". 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, "Mau", "MGS", "mass", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Latin magus, from Ancient Greek μάγος (mágos, “magician”), from Μάγος (Mágos, “Magian”), of an indeterminate Old Iranian origin (see Μάγος for details). Doublet of mage. The correct English form is magus, spelled M-A-G-U-S.
Definition
- 1A magician; (derogatory) a conjurer or sorcerer, especially one who is a charlatan or trickster.
- 2A Zoroastrian priest.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how magus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In the middle of the fifth century, Empedocles testified to the vitality of these maguses, who were capable of commanding the winds and of bringing the dead back from Hades and who presented themselves, not as mortals, but as gods.
It’s from our venerable maguses Gominik Halvor and his son. They’ve cast the runes for our enterprise.
Etymology
From Latin magus, from Ancient Greek μάγος (mágos, “magician”), from Μάγος (Mágos, “Magian”), of an indeterminate Old Iranian origin (see Μάγος for details). Doublet of mage.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amgus
- maggus
- magsu
- maguss
- maugs
- mgaus
- mmagus
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of magus - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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).