wage: meaning and words from its letters
4 letters · 8 letter points · starts with W · ends with E
Meaning of wage
noun
- often, plural
An amount of money paid to a worker for a specified quantity of work, usually calculated on an hourly basis and expressed in an amount of money per hour.
Example: Before her promotion, her wages were 20% less.
Listed forms: wages.
Source: Wiktionary — wage.
verb
- transitive
To conduct or carry out (a war or other contest).
- transitive
To adventure, or lay out, for hire or reward; to hire out.
- obsolete, transitive
To wager, bet.
- obsolete, transitive
To expose oneself to, as a risk; to incur, as a danger; to venture; to hazard.
Listed forms: wages, waging, waged.
Source: Wiktionary — wage.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
Words are grouped by sense, so they are not necessarily interchangeable in every context. Search synonyms for wage.
noun
something that remunerates
verb
carry on (wars, battles, or campaigns)
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is wage in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of wage
W(4) + A(1) + G(2) + E(1) = 8 points.
This is a sum of letter values without board bonuses or word multipliers. A blank tile is worth zero: subtract the value of each letter supplied by a blank. The score does not establish game validity. Full letter-value table.
Anagrams of wage
0 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
No other single-word anagram was found in our standard list.
Shorter words from wage
6 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in wage. Showing up to 24, longest first.