lage
"lage" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“lage” is uncommon English (frequency #65,252 among 2,297 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,252
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Water; any weak alcoholic beverage.
Corpus desk
Index EN-lage · lage · English
lage · rank #65,252 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,252
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH lacuna
Nearest frequency peer: lacuna (-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.
Long-tail ranks near “lage”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Kristallnac…
Kristallnacht
34,754 corpus weight
- Kron
Kron
34,753 corpus weight
- Kucinich
Kucinich
34,752 corpus weight
- lacuna
lacuna
34,750 corpus weight
- lage
lage
34,749 corpus weight
- Lavin
Lavin
34,746 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “lage” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lage |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #65,252 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “lage” in English
Rare enough to double-check
lage is uncommon English at frequency #65,252 among 2,297 “L” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Water; any weak alcoholic beverage.".
lage has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: Probably from Irish lag (“weak”), from Old Irish lac, from Proto-Celtic *laggos, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)leh₁g-. The correct English form is lage, spelled L-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Water; any weak alcoholic beverage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how lage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I bowse no lage, but a whole gage / Of this I'll bowse to you.
Etymology
Probably from Irish lag (“weak”), from Old Irish lac, from Proto-Celtic *laggos, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)leh₁g-.
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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