garage
/ˈɡæ.ɹɪdʒ/
"garage" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“garage” is a regularly-used English word, ranked #4,674 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #4,674
- frequency rank, English
- 6
- letters
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A building (or section of a building) used to store a car or cars, tools and other miscellaneous items.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | garage |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈɡæ.ɹɪdʒ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #4,674 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “garage” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for garage is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈɡæ.ɹɪdʒ/. Corpus data places it at rank #4,674 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
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
- 1A building (or section of a building) used to store a car or cars, tools and other miscellaneous items.
- 2A place where cars are serviced and repaired.
- 3A petrol filling station.
- 4A shed for housing an airship or aeroplane or a launchable missile; a hangar.
- 5A side way or space in a canal to enable vessels to pass each other; a siding.
- 6A type of guitar rock music, personified by amateur bands playing in the basement or garage; garage rock.
- 7A type of electronic dance music related to house music, with warped and time-stretched sounds; UK garage.
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
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.
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.
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Using “garage”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is G-A-R-A-G-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈɡæ.ɹɪdʒ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “gare” - see the side-by-side comparison. garage vs gare
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.