all the rage

adj

"all-the-rage" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“all the rage” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
12
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Very fashionable and popular, like a craze.

Corpus desk

Index EN-all-the-rage · all the rage · English

all the rage · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 12 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "A" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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.

Key facts for all the rage
PropertyValue
Headwordall the rage
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechAdjective
Letters12
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “all the rage” in English

all the ragesits beyond the 100,000 most-frequent English words, in the long tail of technical, archaic, or otherwise rare vocabulary where spelling doubt tends to strike hardest.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

all the rage is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Very fashionable and popular, like a craze.".

all the rage has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is all the rage, spelled A-L-L- -T-H-E- -R-A-G-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Very fashionable and popular, like a craze.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how all the rage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. She sent me to the theatre to see a dancing-woman who was all the rage; […]

This word in other languages

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "all the rage"?
"all the rage" is spelled A-L-L- -T-H-E- -R-A-G-E.
What does "all the rage" mean?
As an adjective, "all the rage" means: Very fashionable and popular, like a craze.
What language does "all the rage" come from?
"all the rage" is a English word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list