stowage
"stowage" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“stowage” is uncommon English (frequency #72,793 among 54,294 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,793
- frequency rank, English
- 54,294
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The act or practice of stowing.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | stowage |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #72,793 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “stowage” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
stowage is uncommon English at frequency #72,793 among 54,294 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for stowage, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From stow + -age. The correct English form is stowage, spelled S-T-O-W-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1The act or practice of stowing.
- 2A place where things are stowed.
- 3Things that are stowed.
- 4Amount of room for storing things.
- 5A charge for stowing and storage.
Etymology
From stow + -age.
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 “stowage”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is S-T-O-W-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.