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gaged
5 letters · 4 distinct letters
A form of gage.
- verb
place a bet on
Which horse are you backing?
- noun
street names for marijuana
- noun
a measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity such as the thickness of wire or the amount of rain etc.
Word history
History of gage
From Middle English gage, from later Old French or early Middle French gager (verb), (also guagier in Old French) gage (noun), ultimately from Frankish *waddi, from Proto Germanic *wadją.
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- Where it comes from
- Listed in the English Speller Database at size 70: the largest list we accept, where the rarer words live.
- How common it is
- Rarer than once in ten million words.
- In the spelling bee
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