garage

/\ɡa.ʁaʒ\/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#5,137

in French word usage

Misspellings

8

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

garage is aFrenchnoun. It means: Bâtiment où on entrepose à l’abri des intempéries les véhicules de transport terrestres, maritimes ou aériens. Pronounced \ɡa.ʁaʒ\. It ranks #5,137 in French word frequency. Often confused with gare and grâce.

Key facts for garage
PropertyValue
Headwordgarage
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɡa.ʁaʒ\
Letters6
Frequency rank#5,137
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of garage in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for garage is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡa.ʁaʒ\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,137 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for garage, with forms such as "agrage", "gaarge", and "garaeg". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "gare", "grâce", "garde", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is garage, spelled G-A-R-A-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Bâtiment où on entrepose à l’abri des intempéries les véhicules de transport terrestres, maritimes ou aériens.
  2. 2
    Action de mettre des wagons à l’abri ou en réserve sur une partie de la voie ferrée disposée à cet effet.
  3. 3
    Action de mettre à l'abri tout type de véhicule de transport.
  4. 4
    Entreprise ou lieu spécialisé dans le stockage, la vente, l'entretien, la réparation des véhicules automobiles, ou des utilitaires de transport.
  5. 5
    Action de faire entrer un bateau dans une gare maritime. On dit aussi garaie.
  6. 6
    Genres de musiques (rock agressif, house, musique électronique) apparues aux États-Unis et en Grande-Bretagne de 1960 à 1990.

Synonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: agrage,gaarge,garaeg,garagge,gargae,garrage,ggarage,graage

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for garage

Misspelling Variants of "garage"

agrage6gaarge6garaeg6garagge7gargae6garrage7ggarage7graage6
Misspelling Variants of "garage"

Frequency rank: #5,137 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "garage"?
"garage" is spelled G-A-R-A-G-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɡa.ʁaʒ\.
What does "garage" mean?
As a noun, "garage" means: Bâtiment où on entrepose à l’abri des intempéries les véhicules de transport terrestres, maritimes ou aériens.
What words are commonly confused with "garage"?
"garage" is commonly confused with "gare", "grâce", "garde". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "garage"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "garage" is \ɡa.ʁaʒ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "garage" come from?
"garage" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.