Spelling
Guages or gauges?
Gauges is the right spelling. Guages is a common misspelling of it.
GUAGES swaps A and U.
Why people write GUAGES
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-ges.
How often GAUGES is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), GUAGES appears 65 times for every 1,000 GAUGES, about once for every 15 correct uses.
Is GUAGES a word?
No. GUAGES is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. GAUGES is in all three and scores 8 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What gauges means
verb: To measure precisely.
For example: "gauge bricks"
More words with the same mistake
Letters in the wrong order:
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