sedge
/sɛd͡ʒ/
"sedge" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sedge” is uncommon English (frequency #60,451 among 54,294 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,451
- frequency rank, English
- 54,294
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Any plant of the family Cyperaceae.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sedge |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /sɛd͡ʒ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #60,451 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “sedge” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
sedge is uncommon English at frequency #60,451 among 54,294 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /sɛd͡ʒ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for sedge in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. 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: Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *sagjaz Proto-West Germanic *sagi Old English seċġ Middle English segge English sedge From Middle English segge, from Old English seċġ, from Proto-West Germanic *sagi, from Proto-Germanic *sagjaz, from Proto-Indo-European *sak-… The correct English form is sedge, spelled S-E-D-G-E.
Definition
- 1Any plant of the family Cyperaceae.
- 2Any plant of the family Cyperaceae.
- 3Any of various other plants resembling true sedges, such as Gentiana rubricaulis and Andropogon virginicus.
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *sagjaz Proto-West Germanic *sagi Old English seċġ Middle English segge English sedge From Middle English segge, from Old English seċġ, from Proto-West Germanic *sagi, from Proto-Germanic *sagjaz, from Proto-Indo-European *sak- (“marsh plant”). Cognate with Dutch zegge and German Segge, dialectal German Saher (“reeds”).
This word in other languages
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 “sedge”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is S-E-D-G-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /sɛd͡ʒ/ (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.