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page

/peɪd͡ʒ/noun, verb

page is spelled P-A-G-E: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 132 times per million words in written English, the 792nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, page means “One of the many pieces of paper bound together within a book or similar document” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of page is pages.

How many letters and syllables are in page?

Letters4: P-A-G-E
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing132 times per million words; the 792nd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Same letters

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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is page?

Page appears 132 times per million words in written English, the 792nd 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 page?

  • /peɪd͡ʒ/

Page has one syllable (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: En-us-page.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with page?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as page.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: gape.

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 page

  • pages plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • paging participle, present
  • paged participle, past

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

What does page mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    One of the many pieces of paper bound together within a book or similar document.

    The book which he was reading had 213 pages.

  2. 2

    One side of a paper leaf in a bound document.

  3. 3

    A collective memory; noteworthy event; memorable episode.

    a page from history

  4. 4

    The type set up for printing a page.

  5. 5

    A screenful of text and possibly other content; especially, the digital simulation of one side of a paper leaf.

  6. 6

    A web page.

  7. 7

    A block of contiguous memory of a fixed length.

  8. 8

    Clipping of memory page.

  9. 9

    A serving boy; a youth attending a person of high degree, especially at courts, often as a position of honor and education.

  10. 10

    UKA youth employed for doing errands, waiting on the door, and similar service in households.

  11. 11

    CanadaUSA boy or girl employed to wait upon the members of a legislative body.

  12. 12

    An employee whose main purpose is to replace materials that have either been checked out or otherwise moved, back to their shelves.

  13. 13

    A contrivance, such as a band, pin, snap, or the like, to hold the skirt of a woman’s dress from the ground.

  14. 14

    A track along which pallets carrying newly molded bricks are conveyed to the hack.

  15. 15

    datedA message sent to someone's pager.

  16. 16

    Any one of several species of colorful South American moths of the genus Urania.

verb

  1. 1

    To mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuscript.

  2. 2

    To turn several pages of a publication.

    The patient paged through magazines while he waited for the doctor.

  3. 3

    To furnish with folios.

  4. 4

    To attend (someone) as a page.

  5. 5

    USobsoleteTo call or summon (someone).

  6. 6

    datedTo contact (someone) by means of a pager or other mobile device.

    I'll be out all day, so page me if you need me.

  7. 7

    To call (somebody) using a public address system to find them.

    An SUV parked me in. Could you please page its owner?

noun

as PAGE
  1. 1

    Acronym of polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis.

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

How do you abbreviate page?

Wiktionary records 3 abbreviations of page: p., pg, pg..

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

Page in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchpage (one side of a leaf of a book), moment, haut fait (collective memory), paginer (mark the pages of), feuilleter (turn several pages of a publication), convoquer (call or summon)
GermanSeite, frei (one side of a leaf of a book), Blatt (one of the pieces of paper bound together…), Page (serving boy), dienen (attend as a page), anpiepen (contact by means of a pager)
Portuguesepágina (one side of a leaf of a book), folha (one of the pieces of paper bound together…), pajem (serving boy)
Spanishpágina (one side of a leaf of a book), page, pagecito, paje (serving boy)

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 page come from?

Borrowed from Middle French page, from Latin pāgina, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ-. Doublet of pagina.

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

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