frontage

Other forms of frontage

plural

frontages·

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 frontage

What does frontage mean?

frontage means "the extent of land abutting on a street or water". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in frontage?

frontage has 2 syllables: fron-tage. The stress falls on "fron". In IPA it is /ˈfɹʌntɪdʒ/.

What is another word for frontage?

Close synonyms include facade, frontal. 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 frontage a common word?

frontage 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.