garage

/ˈɡæ.ɹɪdʒ/

//ˈɡæ.ɹɪdʒ// noun

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"garage" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“garage” has 8 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #4,674. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#4,674
frequency rank, English
2,313
“G” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
12
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A building (or section of a building) used to store a car or cars, tools and other miscellaneous items.

Corpus desk

Index EN-garage · garage · English

garage · rank #4,674 · 8 variants · 12 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #4,674
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,313
  • PHOTO-FINISH gains

Nearest frequency peer: gains (-1 rank slots)

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.

Rank peers near misspelling magnet “garage”

Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword

corpus weight

What this shows “garage” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

garage vs gare
67% similar
garage vs grade
67% similar
garage vs grace
67% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for garage
PropertyValue
Headwordgarage
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
IPA/ˈɡæ.ɹɪdʒ/
Letters6
Frequency rank#4,674
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs12
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “garage”

This scale runs from the tiny cluster of words that carry ordinary speech (left) to the long tail of words almost nobody reaches for (right).garagelands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

The axis is logarithmic, with each marked tick roughly ten times rarer than the last. Same rarity band neighbours include “gains” (#4,673), “gathering” (#4,675), “forgive” (#4,672). Among 2,313 “G” headwords, “garage” is #4,674. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around garage (IPA /ˈɡæ.ɹɪdʒ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #4,674 among 2,313 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 7 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for garage, with forms such as "agrage", "gaarge", and "garaeg". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "gare", "grade", "grace", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: 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… The correct English form is garage, spelled G-A-R-A-G-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    A building (or section of a building) used to store a car or cars, tools and other miscellaneous items.
  2. 2
    A place where cars are serviced and repaired.
  3. 3
    A 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
    A type of electronic dance music related to house music, with warped and time-stretched sounds; UK garage.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. A little further on, to the right, was a large garage, where the charabancs stood, half in and half out of the yard.
  2. The highway to the East Coast which ran through the borough of Ebbfield had always been a main road and even now, despite the vast garages, the pylons and the gaily painted factory glasshouses which had sprung up beside it, there still remained an occasional trace of past cultures.

Etymology

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”).

This word in other languages

garaje(Español)garage(Français)Garage(Deutsch)garagem(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • agrage
  • gaarge
  • garaeg
  • garagge
  • gargae
  • garrage
  • ggarage
  • graage

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of garage - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

agrage2gaarge2garaeg2garagge1gargae2garrage1ggarage1graage2
Edit distance from "garage"

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "garage"?
"garage" is spelled G-A-R-A-G-E. The IPA pronunciation is /ˈɡæ.ɹɪdʒ/.
What does "garage" mean?
As a noun, "garage" means: A building (or section of a building) used to store a car or cars, tools and other miscellaneous items.
What words are commonly confused with "garage"?
"garage" is commonly confused with "gare", "grade", "grace". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "garage"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "garage" is /ˈɡæ.ɹɪdʒ/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What is the origin of the word "garage"?
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 Franki... See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Similar English words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "garage", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list