Do Americans say luggage?

In British English, both these words refer to the bags and suitcases that you take with you when you travel, together with their contents. Luggage is more common than baggage. In American English, luggage refers to empty bags and suitcases. Baggage refers to bags and suitcases with their contents.



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Luggage is the usual word in British English, but baggage is preferred in the context of the bags and cases that passengers take on a flight. In North American English baggage is usually used.

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There is a slight preference of baggage over luggage in American English.

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Also according to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word luggage originally meant inconveniently heavy baggage and comes from the verb lug and the suffix -age.

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