vagabondage

noun

"vagabondage" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“vagabondage” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
11
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The state or characteristic of being a vagabond.

Corpus desk

Index EN-vagabondage · vagabondage · English

vagabondage · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "V" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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Key facts for vagabondage
PropertyValue
Headwordvagabondage
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters11
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “vagabondage” in English

vagabondageranks outside the top 100,000 English headwords, in the long tail of specialist, archaic, or seldom-used vocabulary, exactly the territory where a reader stops mid-sentence to double-check spelling.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

vagabondage is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for vagabondage, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from French vagabondage. The correct English form is vagabondage, spelled V-A-G-A-B-O-N-D-A-G-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    The state or characteristic of being a vagabond.
  2. 2
    Vagabonds, considered as a collective.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how vagabondage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Though he knew it not, the subtle spirit of vagabondage had taken possession of his soul, and even of his hat, which seemed suddenly to have lost its original respectability, and acquired an air of dissoluteness.

Etymology

Borrowed from French vagabondage.

Synonyms

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "vagabondage"?
"vagabondage" is spelled V-A-G-A-B-O-N-D-A-G-E.
What does "vagabondage" mean?
As a noun, "vagabondage" means: The state or characteristic of being a vagabond.
What is the origin of the word "vagabondage"?
Borrowed from French vagabondage. See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list