erasure

Other forms of erasure

plural

erasures·

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 erasure

What does erasure mean?

erasure means "a correction made by erasing". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in erasure?

erasure has 3 syllables: e-ra-sure. The stress falls on "e".

What is another word for erasure?

Close synonyms include expunction, expunging. 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 erasure a common word?

erasure is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.