penge
"penge" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“penge” is uncommon English (frequency #97,426 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,426
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (typically penge flaw or penge error) a printing flaw on early Australian stamps where the c in pence appeared like the letter g.
Corpus desk
Index EN-penge · penge · English
penge · rank #97,426 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,426
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH pedes
Nearest frequency peer: pedes (-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 “penge”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- pastis
pastis
2,580 corpus weight
- PDQ
PDQ
2,577 corpus weight
- pedes
pedes
2,576 corpus weight
- penge
penge
2,575 corpus weight
- Pense
Pense
2,573 corpus weight
- Pescara
Pescara
2,570 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “penge” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | penge |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #97,426 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “penge” in English
Rare enough to double-check
penge is uncommon English at frequency #97,426 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "(typically penge flaw or penge error) a printing flaw on early Australian stamps where the c in pence appeared like the letter g.".
No misspelling variants are generated for penge in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is penge, spelled P-E-N-G-E.
Definition
- 1(typically penge flaw or penge error) a printing flaw on early Australian stamps where the c in pence appeared like the letter g.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how penge appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The ‘PENGE’ flaw which is caused by a white defect on letter ‘C’ of PENCE giving the effect of a ‘G’. This is at # 116 on Plate I.
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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