page
/peɪd͡ʒ/
"page" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“page” has 5 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #791. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #791
- frequency rank, English
- 46,516
- “P” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - One of the many pieces of paper bound together within a book or similar document.
Corpus desk
Index EN-page · page · English
page · rank #791 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #791
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 46,516
- PHOTO-FINISH o
Nearest frequency peer: o (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “page”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- key
key
99,213 corpus weight
- mom
mom
99,212 corpus weight
- o
o
99,211 corpus weight
- page
page
99,210 corpus weight
- paid
paid
99,209 corpus weight
- range
range
99,208 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “page” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | page |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /peɪd͡ʒ/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #791 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “page” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around page (IPA /peɪd͡ʒ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #791 among 46,516 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 8 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for page, with forms such as "apge", "paeg", and "pagge". 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, "PG", "PE", "pay", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Middle French page, from Latin pāgina, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ-. Doublet of pagina. The correct English form is page, spelled P-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1One of the many pieces of paper bound together within a book or similar document.
- 2One side of a paper leaf in a bound document.
- 3A collective memory; noteworthy event; memorable episode.
- 4The type set up for printing a page.
- 5A screenful of text and possibly other content; especially, the digital simulation of one side of a paper leaf.
- 6A web page.
- 7A block of contiguous memory of a fixed length.
- 8Clipping of memory page.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how page appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The book which he was reading had 213 pages.
The graph is on page 30, but I opened the textbook at page 32.
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French page, from Latin pāgina, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ-. Doublet of pagina.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apge
- paeg
- pagge
- pgae
- ppage
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of page - 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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "page", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).
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.