wages
/ˈweɪd͡ʒɪz/noun, verb
wages is a noun meaning “one's total income for a time period” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled W-A-G-E-S and has 2 syllables, and it appears 18 times per million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does wages mean?
noun
- 1
one's total income for a time period
weekly wages
- 2
plural of wage. It may take a singular verb.
verb
- 1
third-person singular simple present indicative of wage
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce wages?
- /ˈweɪd͡ʒɪz/
Wages has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-wages.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
How common is wages?
Wages appears 18 times per million words in written English, the 4,667th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).