mange
/meɪnd͡ʒ/
"mange" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“mange” is uncommon English (frequency #53,087 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,087
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A skin disease of nonhuman mammals caused by parasitic mites (Sarcoptes spp., Demodecidae spp.).
Corpus desk
Index EN-mange · mange · English
mange · rank #53,087 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,087
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH Mansell
Nearest frequency peer: Mansell (+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 “mange”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- MAF
MAF
46,920 corpus weight
- mange
mange
46,914 corpus weight
- Mansell
Mansell
46,913 corpus weight
- Marca
Marca
46,912 corpus weight
- mariposa
mariposa
46,910 corpus weight
- mashing
mashing
46,908 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “mange” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mange |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /meɪnd͡ʒ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #53,087 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “mange” in English
Rare enough to double-check
mange is uncommon English at frequency #53,087 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /meɪnd͡ʒ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A skin disease of nonhuman mammals caused by parasitic mites (Sarcoptes spp., Demodecidae spp.).".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for mange, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English manjewe, manjeue, from Old French manjue, derived from mangier (“to eat”) (modern French manger (“to eat”)), from Latin manducare. The correct English form is mange, spelled M-A-N-G-E.
Definition
- 1A skin disease of nonhuman mammals caused by parasitic mites (Sarcoptes spp., Demodecidae spp.).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mange appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Not yet come! [the] worrying of wolves, biting of mad dogs, the manges, and the—
Etymology
From Middle English manjewe, manjeue, from Old French manjue, derived from mangier (“to eat”) (modern French manger (“to eat”)), from Latin manducare.
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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