mange
/meɪnd͡ʒ/
"mange" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“mange” is uncommon English (frequency #53,087 among 36,575 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,087
- frequency rank, English
- 36,575
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A skin disease of nonhuman mammals caused by parasitic mites (Sarcoptes spp., Demodecidae spp.).
| 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) |
Where “mange” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
mange is uncommon English at frequency #53,087 among 36,575 “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.).
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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Using “mange”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is M-A-N-G-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.