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mileage

/ˈmaɪləd͡ʒ/noun

mileage is spelled M-I-L-E-A-G-E: 7 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 4.4 times per million words in written English, the 12,216th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, mileage means “The total distance travelled in miles or in air miles” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of mileage is mileages.

How many letters and syllables are in mileage?

Letters7: M-I-L-E-A-G-E
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing4.4 times per million words; the 12,216th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is mileage?

Mileage appears 4.4 times per million words in written English, the 12,216th 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 mileage?

  • /ˈmaɪləd͡ʒ/
  • /ˈmaɪlɪd͡ʒ/

Mileage has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-mileage.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of mileage

  • mileages plural
  • milage

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

What does mileage mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    The total distance travelled in miles or in air miles.

  2. 2

    The number of miles travelled by a vehicle on a certain volume of fuel.

  3. 3

    An allowance for travel expenses at a specified rate per mile.

  4. 4

    A fee based on miles of use, as of an automobile or a railroad car.

  5. 5

    informalThe amount of service that something has yielded or may yield in future.

    This old PC has still got plenty of mileage in it.

  6. 6

    informalSomething worth taking into consideration.

    There’s some mileage in your argument.

  7. 7

    slangThe total number of a person's past sexual encounters.

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

Mileage in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchkilometrage, millage (total distance travelled), consommation (distance travelled on certain amount of fuel)
GermanFahrleistung, Laufleistung (total distance travelled), Reichweite (distance travelled on certain amount of fuel), Kilometerpauschale, Kilometergeld (allowance for travel expenses per distance…), Laufzeit (amount of service)
Portuguesemilhagem (total distance travelled)
Spanishmillaje, odometraje (total distance travelled)

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 mileage come from?

From mile + -age.

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

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