stage
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "stage", 5-letters, with pronunciation in International Phonetic Alphabet notation, etymology traced through Germanic and Romance roots where applicable, common misspelling variants catalogued from Hunspell error dictionaries, and usage frequency ranked against the top 100,000 English words in the Wordfreq corpus. PlainSpell covers English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German spelling with confusable-pair detection that highlights visually and phonetically similar words. This entry for "stage" includes synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and cross-language translation pointers sourced from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org extract. Whether you are verifying the correct spelling of "stage" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
stage is aEnglishnoun. It means: A phase. Pronounced /steɪd͡ʒ/. It ranks #837 in English word frequency. Often confused with stay and star.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | stage |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /steɪd͡ʒ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #837 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for stage is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /steɪd͡ʒ/. Corpus data places it at rank #837 in overall English word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 17 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for stage, with forms such as "satge", "sstage", and "staeg". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "stay", "star", "stan", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English stage, from Old French estage (“dwelling, residence; position, situation, condition”), from Old French ester (“to be standing, be located”). Cognate with Old English stæþþan (“to make staid, stay”), Old Norse steðja (“to place, provide, … Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is stage, spelled S-T-A-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1A phase.
- 2One of the portions of a device (such as a rocket or thermonuclear weapon) which are used or activated in a particular order, one after another.
- 3A platform; a surface, generally elevated, upon which show performances or other public events are given.
- 4A floor or storey of a house.
- 5A floor elevated for the convenience of mechanical work, etc.; scaffolding; staging.
- 6A platform, often floating, serving as a kind of wharf.
- 7A stagecoach, an enclosed horsedrawn carriage used to carry passengers; the service that such coaches provide; a company that operates such service.
- 8A place of rest on a regularly travelled road; a station, way station; a place appointed for a relay of horses.
- 9A degree of advancement in a journey; one of several portions into which a road or course is marked off; the distance between two places of rest on a road.
- 10The number of an electronic circuit’s block, such as a filter, an amplifier, etc.
- 11The place on a microscope where the slide is located for viewing.
- 12A level; one of the areas making up the game.
- 13A place where anything is publicly exhibited, or a remarkable affair occurs; the scene.
- 14The succession of rock strata laid down in a single age on the geologic time scale.
- 15An internship.
- 16The notional space within which stereo sounds are positioned, determining where they will appear to come from when played back.
- 17The profession of an actor.
Etymology
From Middle English stage, from Old French estage (“dwelling, residence; position, situation, condition”), from Old French ester (“to be standing, be located”). Cognate with Old English stæþþan (“to make staid, stay”), Old Norse steðja (“to place, provide, confirm, allow”), Old English stede (“state, status, standing, place, station, site”). More at stead. Doublet of étage.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: satge,sstage,staeg,stagge,stgae,sttage,tsage
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for stage
Misspelling Variants of "stage"
Frequency rank: #837 in English
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