aegates

Other forms of aegates

plural

aegateses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about aegates

What does aegates mean?

aegates means "a group of islands off the west coast of Sicily in the Mediterranean".

How many syllables are in aegates?

aegates has 3 syllables: ae-ga-tes. The stress falls on "ae".

What is another word for aegates?

Close synonyms include Egadi Islands, Aegadean Isles, Aegadean Islands, Isole Egadi. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is aegates a common word?

aegates is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.