breakage

Other forms of breakage

plural

breakages·

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 breakage

What does breakage mean?

breakage means "the quantity broken". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in breakage?

breakage has 2 syllables: brea-kage. The stress falls on "brea". In IPA it is /ˈbɹeɪkɪdʒ/.

What is another word for breakage?

Close synonyms include break, breaking. 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 breakage a common word?

breakage 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.