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paged
/peɪdʒd/ · 5 letters · 5 distinct letters
A form of page.
- verb
contact, as with a pager or by calling somebody's name over a P.A. system
- noun
one side of one leaf (of a book or magazine or newspaper or letter etc.) or the written or pictorial matter it contains
- noun
a boy who is employed to run errands
- noun
a youthful attendant at official functions or ceremonies such as legislative functions and weddings
- noun
in medieval times a youth acting as a knight's attendant as the first stage in training for knighthood
Word history
History of page
Borrowed from Middle French page, from Latin pāgina, from Proto Indo European *peh₂ǵ.
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Why this word counts
- Where it comes from
- Listed in the English Speller Database at size 35: the core list of everyday words.
- How common it is
- Used about once in every 4 million words.
- In the spelling bee
- Daily answer A standard word with a definition we can show, so it can be a daily answer.