carnage

Other forms of carnage

plural

carnages·

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 carnage

What does carnage mean?

carnage means "the savage and excessive killing of many people".

How many syllables are in carnage?

carnage has 2 syllables: car-nage. The stress falls on "car". In IPA it is /ˈkɑɹnɪdʒ/.

What is another word for carnage?

Close synonyms include slaughter, massacre, mass murder, butchery. 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 carnage a common word?

carnage is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.