pidge
/pɪdʒ/
"pidge" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“pidge” is uncommon English (frequency #91,921 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,921
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A pigeonhole.
Corpus desk
Index EN-pidge · pidge · English
pidge · rank #91,921 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,921
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH phrasal
Nearest frequency peer: phrasal (-3 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 “pidge”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- perdu
perdu
8,087 corpus weight
- phrasal
phrasal
8,083 corpus weight
- pidge
pidge
8,080 corpus weight
- plastique
plastique
8,077 corpus weight
- Plotinus
Plotinus
8,075 corpus weight
- Podunk
Podunk
8,073 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “pidge” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pidge |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /pɪdʒ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #91,921 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “pidge” in English
Rare enough to double-check
pidge is uncommon English at frequency #91,921 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /pɪdʒ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A pigeonhole.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for pidge, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Clipping of pigeonhole. First attested in the early 2000s; the verb is attested earlier than the noun. The correct English form is pidge, spelled P-I-D-G-E.
Definition
- 1A pigeonhole.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pidge appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
You must hand your assigned work into my pidge at Nuffield by 5pm the Thursday before. Don’t be late.
Toynbee examined the book with interest. 'He said it was put in your pidge?' he said.
Etymology
Clipping of pigeonhole. First attested in the early 2000s; the verb is attested earlier than the noun.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).