stoppage
"stoppage" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“stoppage” has 10 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #21,948. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,948
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A pause or halt of some activity.
Corpus desk
Index EN-stoppage · stoppage · English
stoppage · rank #21,948 · 10 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,948
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH stewardship
Nearest frequency peer: stewardship (-2 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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “stoppage”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- squirt
squirt
78,057 corpus weight
- stewardship
stewardship
78,055 corpus weight
- stoppage
stoppage
78,053 corpus weight
- straining
straining
78,051 corpus weight
- Stu
Stu
78,050 corpus weight
- superpower
superpower
78,049 corpus weight
What this shows “stoppage” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | stoppage |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #21,948 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “stoppage”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around stoppage, anoun. Corpus frequency is #21,948 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for stoppage, with forms such as "sotppage", "sstoppage", and "stopage". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "storage", "stoppages", "slippage", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From stop + -age. The correct English form is stoppage, spelled S-T-O-P-P-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1A pause or halt of some activity.
- 2Something that forms an obstacle to continued activity; a blockage or obstruction.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how stoppage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The length of the stoppages could not well be reduced; indeed, they are already too short if we are to believe the tale now current of a wandering Jew sort of passenger—a lady of advanced years who can only alight from a train backwards. Every time she begins to get out a porter rushes up crying "Hurry up, ma'am; train's going!"—and pushes her in again!
The brakes were specially developed by the Westinghouse Air Brake Company to provide smooth stoppages under automatic operation.
Etymology
From stop + -age.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- sotppage
- sstoppage
- stopage
- stopapge
- stoppaeg
- stoppagge
- stoppgae
- stpopage
- sttoppage
- tsoppage
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of stoppage - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).