rage
/ɹeɪd͡ʒ/noun, verb
rage is spelled R-A-G-E: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 13 times per million words in written English, the 5,957th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, rage means “Violent uncontrolled anger” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of rage is rages.
How many letters and syllables are in rage?
| Letters | 4: R-A-G-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 13 times per million words; the 5,957th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none 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 rage?
Rage appears 13 times per million words in written English, the 5,957th 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 rage?
- /ɹeɪd͡ʒ/
Rage 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-rage.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with rage?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as rage.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: gear, gare, ager.
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 rage
- rages plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- raging participle, present
- raged participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does rage mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Violent uncontrolled anger.
- 2
A current fashion or fad.
Miniskirts were all the rage back then.
- 3
AustraliaUSslangAn exciting and boisterous party.
- 4
A subgenre of trap music originating in the United States in the 2020s, characterized by 808s and aggressive, distorted synths.
- 5
obsoleteAny vehement passion.
verb
- 1
To act or speak in heightened anger.
- 2
To move with great violence, as a storm etc.
- 3
AustraliaUSslangTo party hard; to have a good time.
- 4
obsoleterareTo enrage.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Rage in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | rage, furie, fureur, courroux , rager , faire rage |
| German | Wut, Zorn, Raserei, Rage , wüten, rasen |
| Portuguese | raiva, fúria, ira, furor , enfurecer-se |
| Spanish | rabia , rabiar, encolerizarse , furor |
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 rage come from?
From Middle English rage, from Anglo-Norman rage, from Late Latin rabia, from Classical Latin rabiēs (“anger, fury”). Doublet of rabies. Displaced native Middle English wode, from Old English wōd ("madness, fury, rage"; compare Modern dialectal English wood (“mad, insane, furious, raging”)); and Middle English hotherte (“anger”), from Old English hātheort (“fury, anger, wrath, rage”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).