# baggage

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈbæɡɪd͡ʒ/ · frequency rank #10,496

## Definitions
1. Portable cases, large bags, and similar equipment for manually carrying, pushing, or pulling personal items while traveling
2. Factors, especially psychological ones, which interfere with a person's ability to function effectively.
3. A woman. A female, especially one who is saucy, impudent.
4. An army's portable equipment; its baggage train.

## Etymology
From Middle English bagage, from Old French bagage, baguage, from bague (“bundle, sack”), of Germanic/North Germanic origin, probably from the same ultimate source as Old Norse baggi (“pack, bundle”). Compare also bag. By surface analysis, bag + -age. The old meaning of "nasty woman" likely derives from the sense of "something awkward to be carried" (compare faggot).

## Easily confused with
- **barrage** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/baggage-vs-barrage)
- **bandage** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/baggage-vs-bandage)

## Common misspellings (8)
`abggage`, `bagage`, `bagagge`, `baggaeg`, `baggagge`, `bagggae`, `bbaggage`, `bgagage`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/baggage