tonnage
/ˈtʌnɪd͡ʒ/
"tonnage" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“tonnage” has 8 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #31,381. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #31,381
- frequency rank, English
- 27,828
- “T” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The number of tons of water that a floating ship displaces.
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 | tonnage |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈtʌnɪd͡ʒ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #31,381 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “tonnage” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around tonnage (IPA /ˈtʌnɪd͡ʒ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #31,381 among 27,828 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for tonnage, with forms such as "otnnage", "tnonage", and "tonage". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "tonne", "teenage", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Old French tonnage. The correct English form is tonnage, spelled T-O-N-N-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1The number of tons of water that a floating ship displaces.
- 2The capacity of a ship's hold etc in units of 100 cubic feet.
- 3The number of tons of bombs dropped in a particular region over a particular period of time.
- 4A charge made on each ton of cargo when landed etc.
- 5The total shipping of a fleet or nation.
- 6A weight in tons, especially of cargo or freight.
Etymology
From Old French tonnage.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- otnnage
- tnonage
- tonage
- tonange
- tonnaeg
- tonnagge
- tonngae
- ttonnage
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tonnage - 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 “tonnage”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is T-O-N-N-A-G-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈtʌnɪd͡ʒ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “tonne” - see the side-by-side comparison. tonnage vs tonne
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
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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.