collage

Other forms of collage

plural

collages·

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 collage

What does collage mean?

collage means "a paste-up made by sticking together pieces of paper or photographs to form an artistic image". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in collage?

collage has 2 syllables: col-lage. The stress falls on "lage". In IPA it is /kəˈlɑʒ/.

What is another word for collage?

Close synonyms include montage. 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 collage a common word?

collage 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.