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garage

ga·rageUK /ˈɡæ.ɹɪdʒ/noun, verb

garage is spelled G-A-R-A-G-E: 6 letters and 2 syllables (ga·rage). It appears 18 times per million words in written English, the 4,667th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, garage means “A building (or section of a building) used to store a car or cars, tools and other miscellaneous items” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of garage is garages.

How many letters and syllables are in garage?

Letters6: G-A-R-A-G-E
Syllables2: ga·rage
In writing18 times per million words; the 4,667th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; 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 garage?

Garage 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).

How do you pronounce garage?

  • UK /ˈɡæ.ɹɪdʒ/
  • UK /ˈɡæ.ɹɑːʒ/
  • UK /ˈɡæ.ɹɑːdʒ/

Garage has 2 syllables, split ga·rage in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-uk-garage.ogg, En-gb-garage-alt.ogg, En-uk-garage-2.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with garage?

One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as garage from its last stressed vowel (/æɹɪdʒ/, British pronunciation):

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).

Forms of garage

  • garages plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • garaging participle, present
  • garaged participle, past

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

What does garage mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A building (or section of a building) used to store a car or cars, tools and other miscellaneous items.

  2. 2

    CommonwealthdatedA place where cars are serviced and repaired.

  3. 3

    CommonwealthA petrol filling station.

  4. 4

    A shed for housing an airship or aeroplane or a launchable missile; a hangar.

  5. 5

    A side way or space in a canal to enable vessels to pass each other; a siding.

  6. 6

    A type of guitar rock music, personified by amateur bands playing in the basement or garage; garage rock.

  7. 7

    UKA type of electronic dance music related to house music, with warped and time-stretched sounds; UK garage.

verb

  1. 1

    To store in a garage.

    We garaged the convertible during the monsoon months.

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

Garage in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchgarage (building or section of building to store a car…)
GermanGarage (building or section of building to store a car…), Werkstatt (place where cars are serviced and repaired)
Portuguesegaragem (building or section of building to store a car…), oficina mecânica, mecânica, oficina (place where cars are serviced and repaired)
Spanishgaraje, cochera, marquesina, remesa (disused) (building or section of building to store a car…), taller mecánico (place where cars are serviced and repaired)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does garage come from?

Borrowed from French garage (“keeping under cover, protection, shelter”), derivative of French garer (“to keep under cover, dock, shunt, guard, keep”), from Middle French garer, garrer, guerrer; partly from Old French garir, warir (from Old Frankish *warjan); and partly from Old French varer (“to fight, defend oneself, protect”), from Old Norse varask (“to defend oneself”), reflexive of vara (“to ware, watch out, defend”); both ultimately from Proto-Germanic *warjaną (“to defend, ward off”), *warōną (“to watch, protect”), from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to close, cover, protect, save, defend”

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

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