parentage

Other forms of parentage

plural

parentages·

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 parentage

What does parentage mean?

parentage means "the state of being a parent". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in parentage?

parentage has 3 syllables: par-en-tage. The stress falls on "par". In IPA it is /ˈpɛɹəntədʒ/.

What is another word for parentage?

Close synonyms include parenthood, birth, lineage, line, line of descent. 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 parentage a common word?

parentage is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.