language
lan·guage/ˈlæŋ.ɡwɪd͡ʒ/noun, verb, interjection
language is spelled L-A-N-G-U-A-G-E, 2 syllables: lan·guage. The wrong spelling people search most is langauge: about 130 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 70 of all searches for the word. Language is a noun meaning “A body of words, and set of methods of combining them (called a grammar), understood by a community and used…”. The plural of language is languages.
How many letters and syllables are in language?
| Letters | 8: L-A-N-G-U-A-G-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: lan·guage |
| In writing | 126 times per million words; the 831st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 3; the most searched, langauge, about 130 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| 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); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell language?
Language is spelled L-A-N-G-U-A-G-E. 3 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 34 of the searches for language in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is language?
Language appears 126 times per million words in written English, the 831st 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 language?
- UK /ˈlæŋ.ɡwɪd͡ʒ/
- British /ˈlaŋ.ɡwɪd͡ʒ/
- US /ˈlæŋ.ɡwɪd͡ʒ/
Language has 2 syllables, split lan·guage in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-language.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with language?
One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as language from its last stressed vowel (/æŋɡwɪdʒ/):
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 language
- languages plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- languaging participle, present
- languaged participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does language mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A body of words, and set of methods of combining them (called a grammar), understood by a community and used as a form of communication.
The English and German languages are both members of the West Germanic language family.
- 2
The ability to communicate using words.
the gift of language
- 3
A sublanguage: the slang of a particular community or jargon of a particular specialist field.
legal language; the language of chemistry
- 4
The specific wording or style of a text, such as a law or a contract.
- 5
The expression of thought (the communication of meaning) in a specified way; that which communicates something, as language does.
body language; the language of the eyes
- 6
A body of sounds, signs or signals by which animals communicate, and by which plants are sometimes also thought to communicate.
- 7
A computer language; a machine language.
- 8
A manner of expression.
- 9
A languet, a flat plate in or below the flue pipe of an organ.
interjection
- 1
An admonishment said in response to someone using vulgar language during a conversation.
verb
- 1
nonstandardrareTo communicate by language; to express in language.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate language?
Wiktionary records 2 abbreviations of language: lang, lang..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Language in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | langue , langage , jargon |
| German | Sprache, Einzelsprache, Språch, Sproch, Sprooch |
| Portuguese | idioma, língua , linguagem |
| Spanish | lengua, idioma , lenguaje , jerga |
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.