freightage

Other forms of freightage

plural

freightages·

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 freightage

What does freightage mean?

freightage means "the charge for transporting something by common carrier". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in freightage?

freightage has 2 syllables: freigh-tage. The stress falls on "freigh".

What is another word for freightage?

Close synonyms include freight, freight rate, freight. 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 freightage a common word?

freightage 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.