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package

pack·age/ˈpæk.ɪd͡ʒ/noun, verb

package is spelled P-A-C-K-A-G-E, 2 syllables: pack·age. The wrong spelling people search most is pakige: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 833 of all searches for the word. Package is a noun meaning “Something which is packed, a parcel, a box, an envelope”. The plural of package is packages.

How many letters and syllables are in package?

Letters7: P-A-C-K-A-G-E
Syllables2: pack·age
In writing29 times per million words; the 3,218th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched1; the most searched, pakige, about 20 Bing searches a month (all of them)

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).

How do you spell package?

Package is spelled P-A-C-K-A-G-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 806 of the searches for package in either form.

packagethe right spelling16,100 searches a month
pakigea missing c, i in place of a20 searches a month

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 package?

Package appears 29 times per million words in written English, the 3,218th 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 package?

  • US /ˈpæk.ɪd͡ʒ/

Package has 2 syllables, split pack·age in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-package.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of package

  • packages plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • packaging participle, present
  • packaged participle, past

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

What does package mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    Something which is packed, a parcel, a box, an envelope.

    A dirty package was left in my home.

  2. 2

    Something which consists of various components, such as a piece of computer software.

    Did you test the software package to ensure completeness?

  3. 3

    A piece of software which has been prepared in such a way that it can be installed with a package manager.

  4. 4

    archaicThe act of packing something.

  5. 5

    Something resembling a package.

  6. 6

    A package holiday.

  7. 7

    A football formation.

    the "dime" defensive package

  8. 8

    vulgarThe male genitalia.

verb

  1. 1

    To pack or bundle something.

  2. 2

    To travel on a package holiday.

  3. 3

    To prepare (a book, a television series, etc.), including all stages from research to production, in order to sell the result to a publisher or broadcaster.

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

How do you abbreviate package?

Wiktionary records 2 abbreviations of package: pkg, pkge.

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

Package in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchpaquet, paquetage (something which is packed), empaqueter, emballer (to pack)
GermanPaket, Packung (something which is packed), packen, einpacken (to pack)
Portuguesepacote (something which is packed), empacotar (to pack), empacotamento, embalamento (act of packing)
Spanishpaquete, kete (something which is packed), empacar, empaquetar (to pack), embalaje (act of packing), package (computing: piece of software that it can be…)

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 package come from?

Equivalent to pack + -age. Possibly influenced by Anglo-Latin paccagium or Old French pacquage.

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

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