ages
/ˈeɪ.d͡ʒɪz/noun, verb
ages is spelled A-G-E-S: 4 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 34 times per million words in written English, the 2,831st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, ages means “A long time” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in ages?
| Letters | 4: A-G-E-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 34 times per million words; the 2,831st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is ages?
Ages appears 34 times per million words in written English, the 2,831st 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).
How do you pronounce ages?
- /ˈeɪ.d͡ʒɪz/
Ages 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-ages.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with ages?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as ages.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: sage, sega, geas.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
What does ages mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
plural of age
- 2
A long time.
haven't seen them in ages
- 3
History (past events): Astronomic and geologic history; human history.
Trees have continually evolved throughout the ages.
verb
- 1
third-person singular simple present indicative of age
noun
- 1
plural of AGE
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).