Verges
"verges" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Verges” is uncommon English (frequency #59,104 among 969 “V” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,104
- frequency rank, English
- 969
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname.
Corpus desk
Index EN-verges · Verges · English
Verges · rank #59,104 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,104
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 969
- PHOTO-FINISH venti
Nearest frequency peer: venti (-2 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.
Long-tail ranks near “Verges”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Valletta
Valletta
40,902 corpus weight
- varus
varus
40,901 corpus weight
- Velez
Velez
40,900 corpus weight
- venti
venti
40,899 corpus weight
- Verges
Verges
40,897 corpus weight
- voyeurism
voyeurism
40,890 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Verges” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Verges |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #59,104 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Verges” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Verges is uncommon English at frequency #59,104 among 969 “V” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A surname.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Verges, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Various origins: * Borrowed from French Vergès. * Borrowed from Catalan Verges, a habitational surname from the town of Verges, Catalonia. The correct English form is Verges, spelled V-E-R-G-E-S.
Definition
- 1A surname.
Etymology
Various origins: * Borrowed from French Vergès. * Borrowed from Catalan Verges, a habitational surname from the town of Verges, Catalonia.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).