anchorage

Other forms of anchorage

plural

anchorages·

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 anchorage

What does anchorage mean?

anchorage means "the condition of being secured to a base". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in anchorage?

anchorage has 3 syllables: an-cho-rage. The stress falls on "an". In IPA it is /ˈæŋkɚədʒ/.

What is another word for anchorage?

Close synonyms include anchorage ground. 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 anchorage a common word?

anchorage 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.