ranga
/ɹæŋə/
"ranga" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“ranga” is uncommon English (frequency #78,984 among 3,094 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,984
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An orange-haired or red-haired person.
Corpus desk
Index EN-ranga · ranga · English
ranga · rank #78,984 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,984
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH ransacking
Nearest frequency peer: ransacking (+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 “ranga”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- R0
R0
21,023 corpus weight
- Raimondo
Raimondo
21,020 corpus weight
- ranga
ranga
21,017 corpus weight
- ransacking
ransacking
21,016 corpus weight
- Ravenhill
Ravenhill
21,013 corpus weight
- reaffirmati…
reaffirmation
21,012 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “ranga” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ranga |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɹæŋə/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #78,984 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “ranga” in English
Rare enough to double-check
ranga is uncommon English at frequency #78,984 among 3,094 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ɹæŋə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "An orange-haired or red-haired person.".
Zero misspellings are on record for ranga in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Extracted from (o)rang(utan), with -er suffix; in use since 1990s; to a certain extent popularised by the ABC television show Summer Heights High (2007). The correct English form is ranga, spelled R-A-N-G-A.
Definition
- 1An orange-haired or red-haired person.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ranga appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
You′re looking down upon ‘rangas’ crossing at the traffic lights below. What a cheap but satisfying form of Dublin entertainment! With the sun out, the redheads of Dublin glow like copper wire.
2010, Mungo MacCallum, Punch & Judy: The Double Disillusion Election of 2010, Large Print 16pt Edition, page ii, Indeed, Julia Eileen Gillard may not even be the country′s first ranga prime minister; since all the old ones appear only in black and white, we can′t tell.
Etymology
Extracted from (o)rang(utan), with -er suffix; in use since 1990s; to a certain extent popularised by the ABC television show Summer Heights High (2007).
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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