# pager

> English word · Noun · IPA /peɪd͡ʒə(ɹ)/ · frequency rank #45,567

## Definitions
1. A wireless telecommunications device that receives text or voice messages.
2. A computer program running in a text terminal, used to view (but not modify) the contents of a text file moving down the file one line or one screen at a time.
3. Something (a document, book etc.) that has a specified number of pages.
4. One who makes up type into pages of a book; one who binds or sorts pages into a book.

## Etymology
From page + -er (agent noun suffix) or + -er (measurement suffix) (sense 3).

## Easily confused with
- **per** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pager-vs-per)
- **par** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pager-vs-par)
- **pair** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pager-vs-pair)
- **peer** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pager-vs-peer)
- **pale** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pager-vs-pale)
- **pier** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pager-vs-pier)
- **pave** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pager-vs-pave)
- **pane** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pager-vs-pane)
- **parr** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pager-vs-parr)
- **pate** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pager-vs-pate)
- **pare** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pager-vs-pare)
- **Pape** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pager-vs-pape)
- **power** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pager-vs-power)
- **paper** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pager-vs-paper)
- **Peter** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pager-vs-peter)
- **pages** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pager-vs-pages)
- **panel** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pager-vs-panel)
- **poker** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pager-vs-poker)
- **piper** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pager-vs-piper)
- **paved** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pager-vs-paved)

## Common misspellings (7)
`apger`, `paegr`, `pagerr`, `pagger`, `pagre`, `pgaer`, `ppager`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/pager