Spelling
Guage or gauge?
Gauge is the right spelling. Guage is a common misspelling of it.
GUAGE swaps A and U.
Why people write GUAGE
Two letters next to each other, often a vowel pair, are easy to swap when writing fast, and the result can still look right.
A comes before U: g-A-U-ge.
How often GAUGE is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), GUAGE appears 57 times for every 1,000 GAUGE, about once for every 18 correct uses.
Is GUAGE a word?
No. GUAGE is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. GAUGE is in all three and scores 7 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What gauge means
verb: To measure precisely.
For example: "gauge bricks"
More words with the same mistake
Letters in the wrong order:
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