dishwater

1. 1.

   water in which dishes and cooking utensils are washed

   Broaderwater

Other forms of dishwater

plural

dishwaters·

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 dishwater

What does dishwater mean?

dishwater means "water in which dishes and cooking utensils are washed".

How many syllables are in dishwater?

dishwater has 3 syllables: dish-wa-ter. The stress falls on "dish".

Is dishwater a common word?

dishwater 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.