seepage
"seepage" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“seepage” is uncommon English (frequency #55,090 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,090
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 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.)
Corpus desk
Index EN-seepage · seepage · English
seepage · rank #55,090 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,090
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH seesaw
Nearest frequency peer: seesaw (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “seepage”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- scrubber
scrubber
44,915 corpus weight
- scud
scud
44,914 corpus weight
- seepage
seepage
44,911 corpus weight
- seesaw
seesaw
44,910 corpus weight
- Sephardic
Sephardic
44,908 corpus weight
- serv
serv
44,907 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “seepage” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| 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) |
Long-tail rank of “seepage” in English
Rare enough to double-check
seepage is uncommon English at frequency #55,090 among 6,566 “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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how seepage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] while they all admit that the most serious losses occur by seepage of gas from, and oil into, the combustion-chamber and that this seepage is […]
In the case of the Rio Blanco experiment, it is the seepage of gas which is considered to be the "worst possible situation" that might occur.
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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