warg
/ˈwɑːɡ/
"warg" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“warg” is uncommon English (frequency #84,896 among 12,113 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,896
- frequency rank, English
- 12,113
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A type of particularly wild or hostile wolf.
Corpus desk
Index EN-warg · warg · English
warg · rank #84,896 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,896
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 12,113
- PHOTO-FINISH waterboy
Nearest frequency peer: waterboy (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “warg”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
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15,107 corpus weight
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15,105 corpus weight
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15,104 corpus weight
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15,103 corpus weight
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15,102 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “warg” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | warg |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈwɑːɡ/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #84,896 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “warg” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
warg is uncommon English at frequency #84,896 among 12,113 “W” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈwɑːɡ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A type of particularly wild or hostile wolf.".
No misspelling variants are generated for warg in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: Learned borrowing from Old Norse vargr (“wolf”), reintroduced by J. R. R. Tolkien; compare also Old English wearg. The verb senses emerged from the use of warg in George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire novels as a noun referring to a person with a mag… The correct English form is warg, spelled W-A-R-G.
Definition
- 1A type of particularly wild or hostile wolf.
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Old Norse vargr (“wolf”), reintroduced by J. R. R. Tolkien; compare also Old English wearg. The verb senses emerged from the use of warg in George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire novels as a noun referring to a person with a magical skin-changing ability.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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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.