ramage
/ˈɹæmɪd͡ʒ/
"ramage" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“ramage” is uncommon English (frequency #71,041 among 3,094 “R” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,041
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - of a person or thing: wild; untamed
Corpus desk
Index EN-ramage · ramage · English
ramage · rank #71,041 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,041
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH Rajkot
Nearest frequency peer: Rajkot (-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 “ramage”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Raffi
Raffi
28,963 corpus weight
- Rajkot
Rajkot
28,961 corpus weight
- ramage
ramage
28,960 corpus weight
- Ramzan
Ramzan
28,959 corpus weight
- RDR
RDR
28,958 corpus weight
- realpolitik
realpolitik
28,957 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “ramage” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ramage |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈɹæmɪd͡ʒ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #71,041 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “ramage” in English
Rare enough to double-check
ramage is uncommon English at frequency #71,041 among 3,094 “R” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ˈɹæmɪd͡ʒ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for ramage in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from French ramage, from Middle French and Old French ramage, from ram (“branch”) + -age. by surface analysis, rame + -age. The correct English form is ramage, spelled R-A-M-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1of a person or thing: wild; untamed
- 2of a place or terrain: scrubby, thicketed, rough
Etymology
Borrowed from French ramage, from Middle French and Old French ramage, from ram (“branch”) + -age. by surface analysis, rame + -age.
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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