ranga
/ɹæŋə/
"ranga" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“ranga” is an uncommon English word, ranked #78,984 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #78,984
- frequency rank, English
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - An orange-haired or red-haired person.
| 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) |
Where “ranga” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for ranga is 5 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ɹæŋə/. Corpus data places it at rank #78,984 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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.
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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Using “ranga”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is R-A-N-G-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ɹæŋə/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.