ravages
"ravages" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“ravages” has 10 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #39,048. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,048
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Harsh damage.
Corpus desk
Index EN-ravages · ravages · English
ravages · rank #39,048 · 10 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,048
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH ravenous
Nearest frequency peer: ravenous (+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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “ravages”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Rahim
Rahim
60,957 corpus weight
- Raina
Raina
60,956 corpus weight
- Ralston
Ralston
60,955 corpus weight
- ravages
ravages
60,953 corpus weight
- ravenous
ravenous
60,952 corpus weight
- rearranging
rearranging
60,950 corpus weight
What this shows “ravages” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ravages |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #39,048 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “ravages”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around ravages, anoun. Corpus frequency is #39,048 among 3,094 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Harsh damage.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for ravages, with forms such as "arvages", "raavges", and "ravaegs". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "raves", "ranges", "ravage", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is ravages, spelled R-A-V-A-G-E-S.
Definition
- 1Harsh damage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ravages appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The ravages of war decimated the country: death, destruction and pestilence resulted from the bombings.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- arvages
- raavges
- ravaegs
- ravagess
- ravagges
- ravagse
- ravgaes
- ravvages
- rravages
- rvaages
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ravages - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).