espionage

1. 1.

   the systematic use of spies to get military or political secrets

   Broaderspying

Other forms of espionage

plural

espionages·

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 espionage

What does espionage mean?

espionage means "the systematic use of spies to get military or political secrets".

How many syllables are in espionage?

espionage has 4 syllables: es-pi-o-nage. The stress falls on "es". In IPA it is /ˈɛspiənɑdʒ/.

Is espionage a common word?

espionage 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.

What rhymes with espionage?

1 word rhymes with espionage. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.