stoppages
"stoppages" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“stoppages” has 12 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #44,508. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #44,508
- frequency rank, English
- 54,294
- “S” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - plural of stoppage
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 | stoppages |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #44,508 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “stoppages” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around stoppages, anoun. Corpus frequency is #44,508 among 54,294 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for stoppages, with forms such as "sotppages", "sstoppages", and "stopages". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "stoppage", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is stoppages, spelled S-T-O-P-P-A-G-E-S.
Definition
- 1plural of stoppage
- 2Salary deductions.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- sotppages
- sstoppages
- stopages
- stopapges
- stoppaegs
- stoppagess
- stoppagges
- stoppagse
- stoppgaes
- stpopages
- sttoppages
- tsoppages
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of stoppages - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 “stoppages”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is S-T-O-P-P-A-G-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “stoppage” - see the side-by-side comparison. stoppages vs stoppage
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Same frequency band
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.