rogue
/ˈɹəʊɡ/
"rogue" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“rogue” has 5 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #8,479. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,479
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person.
Corpus desk
Index EN-rogue · rogue · English
rogue · rank #8,479 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,479
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH rex
Nearest frequency peer: rex (-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 “rogue”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- recruit
recruit
91,525 corpus weight
- resting
resting
91,524 corpus weight
- rex
rex
91,523 corpus weight
- rogue
rogue
91,522 corpus weight
- Roosevelt
Roosevelt
91,521 corpus weight
- SD
SD
91,519 corpus weight
What this shows “rogue” 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 | rogue |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈɹəʊɡ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #8,479 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “rogue”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around rogue (IPA /ˈɹəʊɡ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #8,479 among 3,094 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 8 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for rogue, with forms such as "orgue", "rgoue", and "rogeu". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "rue", "rose", "Rome", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: Uncertain. From either: * Earlier English roger (“a begging vagabond who pretends to be a poor scholar from Oxford or Cambridge”), possibly from Latin rogō (“I ask”). * Middle French rogue (“arrogant, haughty”), from Old Northern French rogre (“aggressive”)… The correct English form is rogue, spelled R-O-G-U-E.
Definition
- 1A scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person.
- 2A mischievous scamp.
- 3A vagrant.
- 4Malware that deceitfully presents itself as antispyware.
- 5An aggressive animal separate from the herd, especially an elephant.
- 6A horse, mule, or donkey that is difficult to control; a refractory horse, especially a racehorse.
- 7A plant that shows some undesirable variation.
- 8A character class focusing on stealthy conduct.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rogue appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
And meet time it was, when yon usher, vinegar-faced rogue that he is, began to inquire what popish trangam you were wearing […]
He had told more lies in his time, and undergone more baseness of stratagem in order to stave off a small debt, or to swindle a poor creditor, than would have sufficed to make a fortune for a braver rogue.
Etymology
Uncertain. From either: * Earlier English roger (“a begging vagabond who pretends to be a poor scholar from Oxford or Cambridge”), possibly from Latin rogō (“I ask”). * Middle French rogue (“arrogant, haughty”), from Old Northern French rogre (“aggressive”), from Old Norse hrokr (“excess, exuberance”), for which see Icelandic hroki (“arrogance”), though OED does not document this. * Celtic; see Breton rog (“haughty”).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- orgue
- rgoue
- rogeu
- roggue
- rrogue
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of rogue - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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