wages
/ˈweɪd͡ʒɪz/noun, verb
wages is spelled W-A-G-E-S: 5 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 18 times per million words in written English, the 4,667th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, wages means “one's total income for a time period” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in wages?
| Letters | 5: W-A-G-E-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 18 times per million words; the 4,667th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is wages?
Wages appears 18 times per million words in written English, the 4,667th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce wages?
- /ˈweɪd͡ʒɪz/
Wages has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-wages.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with wages?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as wages.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: swage.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
What does wages mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
one's total income for a time period
weekly wages
- 2
plural of wage. It may take a singular verb.
verb
- 1
third-person singular simple present indicative of wage
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).