range
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "range", 5-letters, with pronunciation in International Phonetic Alphabet notation, etymology traced through Germanic and Romance roots where applicable, common misspelling variants catalogued from Hunspell error dictionaries, and usage frequency ranked against the top 100,000 English words in the Wordfreq corpus. PlainSpell covers English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German spelling with confusable-pair detection that highlights visually and phonetically similar words. This entry for "range" includes synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and cross-language translation pointers sourced from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org extract. Whether you are verifying the correct spelling of "range" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
range is aEnglishnoun. It means: A line or series of mountains, buildings, etc. Pronounced /ɹeɪnd͡ʒ/. It ranks #793 in English word frequency. Often confused with rate and ring.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | range |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɹeɪnd͡ʒ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #793 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for range is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ɹeɪnd͡ʒ/. Corpus data places it at rank #793 in overall English word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 22 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for range, with forms such as "arnge", "ragne", and "raneg". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "rate", "ring", "rare", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English rengen, from Old French rengier (“to range, to rank, to order,”), from the noun renc, reng, ranc, rang (“a rank, row”), from Frankish *hring, from Proto-Germanic *hringaz (“ring, circle, curve”). Doublet of ring. Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is range, spelled R-A-N-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1A line or series of mountains, buildings, etc.
- 2A fireplace; a fire or other cooking apparatus; now specifically, a large cooking stove with many burners (hotplates).
- 3Selection, array.
- 4An area for practicing shooting at targets.
- 5An area for military training or equipment testing.
- 6The distance from a person or sensor to an object, target, emanation, or event.
- 7The maximum distance or reach of capability (of a weapon, radio, detector, etc.).
- 8The distance a vehicle (e.g., a car, bicycle, lorry, or aircraft) can travel without refueling.
- 9An area of open, often unfenced, grazing land.
- 10The extent or space taken in by anything excursive; compass or extent of excursion; reach; scope.
- 11The set of values (points) which a function can obtain.
- 12The length of the smallest interval which contains all the data in a sample; the difference between the largest and smallest observations in the sample.
- 13The defensive area that a player can cover.
- 14The scale of all the tones a voice or an instrument can produce.
- 15The geographical area or zone where a species is normally naturally found.
- 16A sequential list of values specified by an iterator.
- 17An aggregate of individuals in one rank or degree; an order; a class.
- 18The step of a ladder; a rung.
- 19A bolting sieve to sift meal.
- 20A wandering or roving; a going to and fro; an excursion; a ramble; an expedition.
- 21In the public land system, a row or line of townships lying between two succession meridian lines six miles apart.
- 22The variety of roles that an actor can play in a satisfactory way.
Etymology
From Middle English rengen, from Old French rengier (“to range, to rank, to order,”), from the noun renc, reng, ranc, rang (“a rank, row”), from Frankish *hring, from Proto-Germanic *hringaz (“ring, circle, curve”). Doublet of ring.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: arnge,ragne,raneg,rangge,rannge,rnage,rrange
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for range
Misspelling Variants of "range"
Frequency rank: #793 in English
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