mileage

1. 1.

   distance measured in miles

   Synonymsmilage

   Broaderdistance
2. 2.

   the ratio of the number of miles traveled to the number of gallons of gasoline burned

   Synonymsfuel consumption rategasoline mileagegas mileage

   Broaderratio
3. 3.

   a travel allowance at a given rate per mile traveled

   Broadertravel allowance

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.