teenage
/ˈtiːneɪd͡ʒ/
"teenage" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“teenage” has 9 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #5,743. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,743
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Of or relating to an age between thirteen and nineteen years old.
Corpus desk
Index EN-teenage · teenage · English
teenage · rank #5,743 · 9 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,743
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH tattoo
Nearest frequency peer: tattoo (-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 “teenage”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
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94,261 corpus weight
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94,260 corpus weight
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tattoo
94,259 corpus weight
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94,258 corpus weight
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94,257 corpus weight
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Tours
94,256 corpus weight
What this shows “teenage” 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 | teenage |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈtiːneɪd͡ʒ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #5,743 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “teenage”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around teenage (IPA /ˈtiːneɪd͡ʒ/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #5,743 among 3,151 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Of or relating to an age between thirteen and nineteen years old.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for teenage, with forms such as "etenage", "teeange", and "teenaeg". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "tonnage", "teenager", "teenaged", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From -teen + age. First attested in 1921. The correct English form is teenage, spelled T-E-E-N-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Of or relating to an age between thirteen and nineteen years old.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how teenage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Fred's teenage years were the most difficult of times.
It was a teenage girl with Cleopatraesque black hair; tight jeans and a tie dyed T-shirt cut off to show her stud-pierced navel.
Etymology
From -teen + age. First attested in 1921.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- etenage
- teeange
- teenaeg
- teenagge
- teengae
- teennage
- tenage
- teneage
- tteenage
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of teenage - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "teenage", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (9 here; floor ≥5).