seepage
"seepage" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“seepage” is uncommon English (frequency #55,090 among 54,294 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,090
- frequency rank, English
- 54,294
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The process by which something, especially a liquid, leaks through a porous substance; the process of seeping. (Also used figuratively: the process of diffusing.)
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | seepage |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #55,090 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “seepage” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
seepage is uncommon English at frequency #55,090 among 54,294 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for seepage in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From seep + -age. The correct English form is seepage, spelled S-E-E-P-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1The process by which something, especially a liquid, leaks through a porous substance; the process of seeping. (Also used figuratively: the process of diffusing.)
- 2Water that has seeped or oozed through a porous soil.
Etymology
From seep + -age.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “seepage”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is S-E-E-P-A-G-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.