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etage

/əˈtɑːʒ/noun

etage is a noun meaning “Alternative form of étage” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled E-T-A-G-E and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 55 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of etage is étages or etages.

What does etage mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Alternative form of étage.

noun

as étage
  1. 1

    Any of the distinctive forms that a cloud takes relating to the altitude of its base, either "low", "middle", or "high", and designated by the respective prefixes strato-, alto-, and cirro-.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce etage?

  • US /əˈtɑːʒ/
  • Australia /əˈtaːʒ/

Etage has 2 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of etage

  • étages plural
  • etages plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is etage?

Etage appears about once in every 55 million words in written English, the 231,291st 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).

Where does etage come from?

Borrowed from French étage. Doublet of stage.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).