mileage

Other forms of mileage

plural

mileages·

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 mileage

What does mileage mean?

mileage means "distance measured in miles". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in mileage?

mileage has 2 syllables: mi-leage. The stress falls on "mi". In IPA it is /ˈmaɪlədʒ/.

What is another word for mileage?

Close synonyms include milage, fuel consumption rate, gasoline mileage, gas mileage. 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 mileage a common word?

mileage 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.