# rage

> English word · Noun · IPA /ɹeɪd͡ʒ/ · frequency rank #6,004

## Definitions
1. Violent uncontrolled anger.
2. A current fashion or fad.
3. An 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. Any vehement passion.

## Etymology
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”).

## Easily confused with
- **re** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rage-vs-re)
- **ran** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rage-vs-ran)
- **ray** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rage-vs-ray)
- **raw** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rage-vs-raw)
- **RAM** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rage-vs-ram)
- **rat** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rage-vs-rat)
- **rap** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rage-vs-rap)
- **rig** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rage-vs-rig)
- **rug** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rage-vs-rug)
- **reg** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rage-vs-reg)
- **rue** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rage-vs-rue)
- **raj** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rage-vs-raj)
- **RPG** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rage-vs-rpg)
- **rye** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rage-vs-rye)
- **roe** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rage-vs-roe)
- **Rao** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rage-vs-rao)
- **ras** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rage-vs-ras)
- **RGB** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rage-vs-rgb)
- **rah** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rage-vs-rah)
- **ree** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rage-vs-ree)

## Common misspellings (5)
`arge`, `raeg`, `ragge`, `rgae`, `rrage`

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